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Mendonça, S., Confraria, H. & Godinho, M.M. (2021). Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches. Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches.
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S. M. Mendonça et al.,  "Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches", in Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches, 2021
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@unpublished{mendonça2021_1716241340798,
	author = "Mendonça, S. and Confraria, H. and Godinho, M.M.",
	title = "Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches",
	year = "2021",
	url = "https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=swps-2021-07.pdf&site=18"
}
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TY  - EJOUR
TI  - Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches
T2  - Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches
AU  - Mendonça, S.
AU  - Confraria, H.
AU  - Godinho, M.M.
PY  - 2021
SN  - 2057-6668
UR  - https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=swps-2021-07.pdf&site=18
AB  - Three decades after the publication of Zvi Griliches’ (1990) influential survey on “Patent statistics as economic indicators”, the uses and limitations of patent statistics remain a core issue in the field of innovation studies. This paper follows through Griliches’ seminal work to understand how the literature using patents as an empirical resource developed over time. How has this indicator been adopted and how has it been adapted to different research challenges? We address this question by examining the citation tree of nearly 2000 articles published in almost 400 journals found to refer  to  Griliches’  seminal  contribution  between  1990  and  2019.  We  combine  bibliometric techniques  and qualitative  analysis  to  provide  a  close-up  moving  picture  of  patents  as  a  data resource: growth and variety of usage, impact on disciplines and journals, driving institutions and geographies, major topics and research issues. We find that five main themes emerge: 1) Economic growth;  2)  Geography  of  innovation;  3)  Innovation  management/performance;  4)  Pat-methods;  and  5)  Green innovation.  Shouldered  by  these  findings,  we  discuss  potential  pathways  for  future  patent-based research. 
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