Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89368 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2005/20
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
From a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patents, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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