This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier … hand is restricted to patents with academic participation, but takes a close look at two types of factors in the … considering only patents with at least one academic inventor we have a relatively homogeneous subset of patents and can …

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the … distance between inventors for patents invented in collaboration and give insights into the distance' s change over a time … period of 14 years. The distance between collaborating inventors of corporate patents exceeds that of inventors of academic …