Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology? Evidence from Historical Patent Citations

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Patent citation data in social science research: Overview and best practices (2017, unknown): “The article concludes that the identified measures, although promising, give contradictory messages when taken separately and that it is not obvious how to combine those measures to choose a sample of GPT patents.8 The fundamental difficulty is that we don’t have measures of how general-purpose a te”
Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run (2018, unknown): “Hence, even with this truncation bias, citations are still informative about the quality of the patent (Moser and Nicholas, 2004; Nicholas, 2008).”
Assessing the nature of nanotechnology: can we uncover an emerging general purpose technology? (2008, background): “…research studying whether technologies are or were GPTs has been undertaken only after the technology has matured sufficiently so as to allow researchers to collect an adequate body of information from the patent record (Hall & Trajtenberg, 2004 (ICT); Moser & Nicholas, 2004 (electricity)).”