result varies with the technological class of the patent, the presence and age of a technology transfer office within the …

Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Until … now, there exists little evidence on whether patent citations are a good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses … the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of technology flows. It uses information from the Community …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the …

Germany, using data from the fourth Community Innova-tion Survey (CIS4). We propose an original econometric methodology, which … significant in both countries, but much higher in Germany than in France. Drawing on a comparison of the institutional context of …

fore. The first question is to what extent patent law guarantees public interest, contributes to public interest or, on the … contrary, limits public interest. The second question is to what extent public interest influences patent law. In an attempt to … entertains with patent law, from three different persectives: the notion of public interest sensu sensu stricto, the concept of …