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International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Patent Citation

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  • Jaffe, A.B.
  • Trajtenberg, M.

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This paper explores the patterns of citations among patents taken out by inventors in the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and Japan. We find that, (1) Patets assigned to the same firm are more likely to cit each other, and come sooner that other citations; (2) patents in the same patent class are approximately 100 times as likely to cite each other as patents from different patent classes, but there is not a strong time pattern to this effect; (3) patents whose investors reside in the same country are typically 30 to 80% more likely to cite each other than inventors from other countries, and these, and these citations come sooner, and (4) there are clear country-specific citation tendencies, e.g., Japanese citations typically come sooner than those of other countries.

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  • Jaffe, A.B. & Trajtenberg, M., 1998. "International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Patent Citation," Papers 11-98, Tel Aviv.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:teavfo:11-98
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    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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