Balasubramanian, Natarajan; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 93 (2011) 1, pp. 126-146
We build a new concordance between the NBER Patent Data and U.S. Census microdata and use it to examine what happens when firms patent. We find strong evidence that increases in patent stock are associated with increases in firm size, scope, and skill and capital intensity. We find somewhat...