This paper estimates the international diffusion of technical knowledge using patent citations. We control for self-citations and for procedural differences between patent offices using equivalent patents. We find that (1) there are clear biases in patent examination processes that generate citations in the two offices; (2) at the EPO there is a strong localization effect at the country level, and the size is comparable to that found at the USPTO; (3) technological fields have different properties of diffusion in the two patent offices that do not depend on a patent office bias; (4) using EPO data, the US is not the leading country in terms of citations made and received, as occurs at the USPTO. © The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2010.

Bacchiocchi, E., Montobbio, F., International Knowledge Diffusion and Home-bias Effect: Do USPTO and EPO Patent Citations Tell the Same Story?, <<SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS>>, 2010; 112 (3): 441-470. [doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2010.01614.x] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/99557]

International Knowledge Diffusion and Home-bias Effect: Do USPTO and EPO Patent Citations Tell the Same Story?

Montobbio, Fabio
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2010

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This paper estimates the international diffusion of technical knowledge using patent citations. We control for self-citations and for procedural differences between patent offices using equivalent patents. We find that (1) there are clear biases in patent examination processes that generate citations in the two offices; (2) at the EPO there is a strong localization effect at the country level, and the size is comparable to that found at the USPTO; (3) technological fields have different properties of diffusion in the two patent offices that do not depend on a patent office bias; (4) using EPO data, the US is not the leading country in terms of citations made and received, as occurs at the USPTO. © The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2010.
2010
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Bacchiocchi, E., Montobbio, F., International Knowledge Diffusion and Home-bias Effect: Do USPTO and EPO Patent Citations Tell the Same Story?, <<SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS>>, 2010; 112 (3): 441-470. [doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2010.01614.x] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/99557]
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