Quantitative Determination of Technological Improvement from Patent Data
The results in this paper establish that information contained in patents in a technological domain is strongly correlated with the rate of technological progress in that domain. The importance of patents in a domain, the recency of patents in a domain and the immediacy of patents in a domain are al...
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Public Library of Science
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96760 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-8358 |