The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics

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Patent citation data in social science research: Overview and best practices (2017, unknown): “Bessen (2008) related the value of patents, as indicated by both renewal information and firm financial data, to a number of patent characteristics, including forward citations received.”
Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption? (2013, methodology): “Bessen (2008) uses the patents as options methodology and finds that U.S. patents issued in 1991 have a mean value of $121,000 and a median of $11,000.”
Do Important Inventions Benefit from Knowledge Originating in Other Technological Domains (2012, background): “Given the observation that patent counts in general increase forward citations (Bessen, 2008), we add counts of other citations made, defined as: other = citations made − (far + near).”
Serial Crowdfunding, Social Capital, and Project Success (2017, background): “Resources possessed by firms and individuals are well known to depreciate over time (e.g., Bessen, 2008; Mincer & Ofek, 1982).”