When small is beautiful: measuring the evolution and consequences of the voluminosity of patent applications at the EPO
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- Archontopoulos, Eugenio & Guellec, Dominique & Stevnsborg, Niels & van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno & van Zeebroeck, Nicolas, 2007. "When small is beautiful: Measuring the evolution and consequences of the voluminosity of patent applications at the EPO," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 103-132, June.
- van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno & Guellec, Dominique & van Zeebroeck, Nicolas & , & Stevnsborg, Niels, 2006. "When Small is Beautiful: Measuring the Evolution and Consequences of the Voluminosity of Patent Applications at the EPO," CEPR Discussion Papers 5970, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Eugenio Archontopoulos & Dominique Guellec & Niels Stevnsborg & Bruno Van Pottelsberghe & Nicolas van Zeebroeck, 2007. "When small is beautiful: measuring the evolution and consequences of the voluminosity of patent applications at the EPO," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/6191, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
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Patent drafting; patent voluminosity; patent applications; patent statistics; patent systems; workload.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
- O50 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INO-2006-10-21 (Innovation)
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