performance of downstream R&D. Using both the RIETI inventor survey in Japan and the bibliographic information of triadic patents … of the patents citing standard documents has been increasing. The citation information in US patent documents can be … knowledge flow. The R&D projects intensively using standard information tend to generate valuable patents and also a large …

more patents from a research project but not more valuable patents, controlling for the objectives and the R&D investment … number of patents from the project, suggesting that the main source of such scale economy is not internal knowledge inflow …