determine idea inputs in invention based on the text of nearly every US patent granted during 1836–2010. We find that inventions … evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for … invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing …

incentives to invest. Yet, they could damage the efficacy of innovation investments that crucially rest on employee incentives …

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 …