This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel … of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is …) estimators. Estimates using system GMM estimators show a moderate degree of persistence in EPO patents per capita with an …

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 …