Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment: Comment

Given the importance of the issue of knowledge spillovers for an understanding of the determinants of economic growth and for economic policy, the authors are delighted to see further work in this area, and Thompson and Fox-Kean are to be congratulated for their careful data collection and construct...

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Published inThe American economic review Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 461 - 464
Main Authors Henderson, Rebecca, Jaffe, Adam, Trajtenberg, Manuel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Nashville American Economic Association 01.03.2005
Subjects
Classification
Discourse
Economic growth
Economic theory
Geography
Hypotheses
Innovation diffusion
Knowledge
Knowledge management
Localization
Methodology
Perceptual localization
Sample size
Sampling methods
Shorter Papers
Spillovers
Technological innovation
Technology
Tissue engineering
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Summary:Given the importance of the issue of knowledge spillovers for an understanding of the determinants of economic growth and for economic policy, the authors are delighted to see further work in this area, and Thompson and Fox-Kean are to be congratulated for their careful data collection and construction work, as well as their thoughtful raising of a number of important issues. The authors take issue, however, both with some of the key assumptions of their paper and with the intrepretation of their more detailed quantitative results.
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ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/0002828053828644