Citations are increasingly used as performance indicators in research policy and within the
research system. Usually, citations are assumed to reflect the impact of the research or its …

Bibliometric studies are increasingly being used for research assessment. Bibliometric
indicators are strongly methodology‐dependent but for all of them, various types of data …

The extent to which scientific advances support marketplace inventions is largely unknown.
We study 4.8 million US patents and 32 million research articles to determine the minimum …

In contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or
intellectual monopolies. The book's unique perspective focuses on how private ownership …

Eco-innovations are being recognized as fundamental means to foster sustainable
development, as well as to create new business opportunities. Nowadays, the eco …

We combine estimates of the value of patent rights from a survey of patent-holders with a set
of indicator variables in order to model the value of patents. Our results suggest that the …

This book is written for members of the scholarly research community, and for persons
involved in research evaluation and research policy. More specifically, it is directed towards …

A large body of work argues that scientific research increases the rate of technological
advance, and with it economic growth. The precise mechanism through which science …

Prior research on M&As and invention outcomes has not systematically examined the
influence of two types of knowledge differences. Knowledge relatedness has typically been …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator
and reviews some of the recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments …