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 …

goods represents its national innovation capacity, which is at the same time a key determinant of countries' economic … postulates on which this concept is based, as well as calculating the Innovation capacity index by which it is possible to … predict progress in building innovation capacity of individual countries and mutual comparison with other countries according …