Danguy, Jérôme; De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Van … - In: EIB papers 14 (2009) 1, pp. 170-195
This paper re-visits the empirical failure to establish a clear link between R&D efforts and patent counts at the … industry level. It is claimed that the "propensity-to-patent" concept should be split into an "appropriability propensity" and … countries over 19 years. The results confirm that the R&D-patent relationship is affected by research productivity …