Firm strategic behavior and the measurement of knowledge flows with patent citations

Volume: 40, Issue: 7, Pages: 1040 - 1069
Published: Mar 29, 2019
Abstract
Research Summary This research addresses firms' use of external knowledge sources to develop patented inventions and explores the validity of patent citations as an indicator of interfirm knowledge flows. By comparing patent citations with primary data reported by the inventors, we uncover systematic measurement errors in patent citations and show that they depend on the firms' patent strategies (e.g., to reduce the risk of imitation or...
Paper Details
Title
Firm strategic behavior and the measurement of knowledge flows with patent citations
Published Date
Mar 29, 2019
Volume
40
Issue
7
Pages
1040 - 1069
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