A study of how patents and citation data can serve empirical research on innovation and technological change.

The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely

Through the prisms of a data scientist, a patent attorney, and a designer, this book demystifies the complexity of patent data and its structure and reveals the

Papers from an NBER conference of the same name, held in Washington, DC, on 17 May 2019.

This manual provides guiding principles for the use of patent data in the context of S&T measurement, and recommendations for the compilation and interpretation