Xie, Zhuan; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Innovations are a key driver of long-term economic growth. There has been an explosion of patent filings in China in … due to lack of firm-specific patent data. We have made concerted efforts to match Chinese patent data with a large firm …-level database. The matched dataset enables us to examine the patterns of patents at the firm level. …