Measuring the "ideas" production function
Subtitle: evidence from international patent output
By: Michael E. Porter, Scott Stern.
Contributors: Stern, Scott, 1969-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 7891; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 7891.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Diffusion of innovations.; Patents.; Research, Industrial.; Industrial productivity -- Effect of technological innovations on.; Industrial productivity -- Developing countres -- Effect of technical innovations on.; Diffusion of innovations -- Developing countries.
Notes: JEL no. O3, O47, O57.

"September 2000."

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