“Wacky” Patents Meet Economic Indicators

[en] We investigate whether standard indicators can distinguish between ‘‘wacky’’ patents and a control group. Forward citations are good predictors of importance. However, ‘‘wacky’’ patents have higher originality, generality and citation lags, suggesting that these indicators should be interpreted carefully.

Disciplines :

Strategy & innovation

Author, co-author :

Czarnitzki, Dirk

HUSSINGER, Katrin ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA)

Schneider, Cedric

Language :

English

Title :

“Wacky” Patents Meet Economic Indicators

Publication date :

2011

Journal title :

Economics Letters

ISSN :

0165-1765

Publisher :

Elsevier Science

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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