How well do patent citations measure flows of technology? Evidence from French innovation surveys

By Emmanuel Duguet, Megan J. MacGarvie. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Measuring Knowledge Spillovers: What Patents, Licenses and Publications Reveal About Innovation Diffusion (2009, methodology): “Duguet and MacGarvie (2005) employed a survey about the innovative activities of French ﬁrms.”
Productivity Spillovers across Firms through Worker Mobility (2012, unknown): “(More detail on our implementation of this measure, and on our identification For example, according to Duguet and MacGarvie (2005), 36% of French firms said they had obtained new technologies by hiring new employees, whereas only 17% learned from patents and licenses.”
Do Firms Learn from International Trade? (2006, methodology): “In our analysis of the relationship between citations and technology flows as measured by the innovation survey, Duguet and MacGarvie (2005) show that outward technology flows through equipment sales, mergers, and joint ventures and alliances are significantly associated with forward citations.”
Learning from What Others Have Learned from You: The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers on Originating Firms (2010, unknown): “Although examiner-added citations may add noise to measuring spillovers, many studies have shown that patent citations are valid indicators of actual knowledge flows (cf. Duguet & MacGarvie, 2005; Jaffe et al., 2002).”
International Knowledge Diffusion and Home‐bias Effect: Do USPTO and EPO Patent Citations Tell the Same Story?* (2010, unknown): “…from the USPTO, for a panel of 113 European and North American 2The use of patent citations as an index of knowledge flow has been validated by Jaffe et al. (2000) for the USPTO (with a survey of inventors) and by Duguet and MacGarvie (2005) for the EPO (with Community Innovation Survey data).”
Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires (2010, unknown): “Despite this, however, scholars have shown that they correlate quite well with actual knowledge flow, especially when employing large samples (Chapter 12 in Jaffe and Trajtenberg 2002, Duguet and MacGarvie 2005).9”
THE ELIXIR (OR BURDEN) OF YOUTH? EXPLORING DIFFERENCES IN INNOVATION BETWEEN START-UPS AND ESTABLISHED FIRMS. (2008, methodology): “Although this variable is self-reported, prior research has shown that measures of innovation reported in the CIS are highly correlated to other measures of innovative outputs, such as patents (Duguet and MacGarvie 2005; Hall and Mairesse 2006).”
Distributed R&D, Cross-Regional Knowledge Integration and Quality of Innovative Output (2008, background): “Despite these sources of noise, however, citations have been shown to correlate well with actual knowledge flow (Jaffe and Trajtenberg, 2002, Chapter 12; Duguet and MacGarvie, 2005).”
The Innovation-Economic Growth Nexus: Global Evidence (2010, background): “Patent citations can thus in some circumstances (see footnote 1) be interpreted as knowledge flows from one invention to another (Jaffe et al., 1993; Duguet and MacGarvie, 2005), and can be used to identify those innovations with breakthrough impact.”