energy. The analysis is conducted using patent data on a panel of 25 countries over the period 1978-2003. It is found that … public policy plays a significant role in determining patent applications. Different types of policy instruments are …

approach combines data from three sources: the industrial census, international and domestic patent records, and leadership … and also promote neighboring firm innovation. We find no tendency for export intensive firms to patent more. Controlling …

patent analysis -- Patent system, patents and economics … patent statistics, patent classification and database search methods to retrieve patent-related information. In addition, it …