knowledge production function approach. At the level of the Egyptian governorates, the number of patent applications has been …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … firms increasingly file patent applications that are based on inventor activities located in emerging economies, often …

North America as revealed by patent citation between US-granted patents. Then we estimate the impact of these flows on …

The article attempts to show the role of the patent system in the internationalization of diffusion of technical … knowledge. Its purpose is to analyse, use of international technical knowledge made available through patent systems, by Polish … so-called patent citations, included in the technical documentation submitted for the protection of inventions …

industries, once controlling for both cost and other technological factors. Using patent data on 14 manufacturing industries in … found to be more relevant than standard technological indicators such as patent counts. Our results point to the importance …