Fu, Xiaolan; Yang, Qing Gong - In: Research Policy 38 (2009) 7, pp. 1203-1213
This paper benchmarks the patent activities of a sample of OECD countries against the world frontier and explores the sources of the cross-country differences in patenting (regarded as a proxy for innovation). A patent production frontier is estimated for a panel of 21 OECD countries over the...