International patent citations, its firm-led network

Estudos Econômicos

Jorge Nogueira de PaivaBritto¹  Leonardo CostaRibeiro²  Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque² 

[1] Universidade Federal Fluminense.Departamento de Economia;Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.Departamento de Ciências Econômicas(CEDEPLAR);

关键词: Patent citations;    International knoledge flows;    Innovation systems;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents a database with USPTO patents for selected years between 1991 and 2009, totaling 1,022,490 patents, 786,780 patents with international citations and 4,064,995 cross-border citations - links in our analysis. We evaluate a network from those international links, with nodes that are institutions - patent assignees. The literature review organizes arguments for patent citations as knowledge flows and acknowledges problems such as differences between applicants and examiners citations - an exercise to deal with this problem is presented. This network has firms as the dominant institution. An inter-temporal analysis shows the network growth over time and the preservation of its scale-free structure, evidence of its resilience. Over time, this network evolves, changing the leading sectors in a matrix of interaction between citing and cited patents - indications of changes caused by the emergence of new sectors.

【 授权许可】

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