Does it matter where patent citations come from? Inventor versus examiner citations in European patents

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Knowledge flows across European regions (2009, background): “Almost 90% of EPO citations are traced by the examiners ( Criscuolo and Verspagen 2006 ) while the corresponding proportion for a sample of USPTO patents is around 40% (Thompson 2006).”
Location, collocation and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry (2009, neutral): “depend on distance, the marginal cost of transmitting tacit knowledge increases with distance (Criscuolo and Verspagen, 2006).”
The technological origins of radical inventions (2010, result): “So in contrast to Criscuolo and Verspagen (2008) we do not feel that in the EPO system it is only the inventor citations that should be considered when looking for knowledge flows.”
Exploring the paradox of competence‐creating subsidiaries : balancing bandwidth and dispersion in MNEs (2014, neutral): “Geographical proximity is often essential for the exchange of tacit information (Criscuolo and Verspagen 2008), and the greater the local embeddedness of the subsidiary, the greater the likelihood of recombining these external assets with its FSAs.”