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 …

An introduction to innovation and policy / Louise Earl and Fred Gault -- What do we know about innovation and socio …-economic change? : lessons from the TEARI Project / Jan Fagerberg -- The role of benchmarks and targets in Canadian innovation policy … / Surendra Gera, Richard Roy and Thitima Songsakul -- Innovation in enterprise clusters : evidence from Dutch manufacturing …

Patent race models assume that an innovator wins the only patent covering a product. But when technologies are complex … patent standards are low, firms build "thickets" of patents, especially incumbent firms in mature industries. When they … other hand, when lead time advantages are significant and patent standards are high, firms pursue strategies of "mutual non …