Danguy, Jérôme; de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; van … - In: EIB Papers 14 (2009) 1, pp. 170-195
This paper re-visits the empirical failure to establish a clear link between R&D efforts and patent counts at the … industry level. It is claimed that the 'propensity-to-patent' concept should be split into an 'appropriability propensity' and … countries over 19 years. The results confirm that the R&D-patent relationship is affected by research productivity …