Patent Activity and Technical Change in Us Industries

by Daniel J. Slottje and Michael McAleer

Description innovation is universally recognized as an important source of economic growth. Patents may be considered as a potential measure of innovation. As such, patents may alter isoquant maps, and measuring their elasticities is both intuitively and empirically appealing. This book investigates the impact of U.S.A. patent activity on technical change in 35 industries given in the KLEM (Jorgenson, 1996) data set for the period 1958-1996. Four...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444518584
• ISBN13: 9780444518583
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"