Lotti, Francesca; Schivardi, Fabiano - In: Giornale degli Economisti 64 (2005) 4, pp. 469-502
We investigate cross country differences in patent propensity in the European Union using the European Patent Office database and the database on European firms AMADEUS. We ask how much of the differences in patent propensity at the aggregate level can be accounted for by a more disaggregate...