Araujo, Veneziano de Castro; Garcia, Renato - 2012
developing ones, in which patents are proportionally rare. In this sense, it's applied an empirical model based in the Jaffe …'s (1989) knowledge production function to Brazilian regions. The model uses patents as a proxy for the innovative output and … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …