Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2000 - This version: 11.11.00
Patents citations are a potentially powerful indicator of technological innovation. In this paper we describe the IFS …-Leverhulme patents dataset that we have constructed by combining information from the US Case-Western Patent database with UK company … accounts and share price information from the London Stock Exchange. Patents citations like patentc ounts, arehighly skewed and …