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Patent citations: Tracing spillovers or chasing shadows? Measuring how ideas move across firms and regions

🔎 Patent citations are everywhere in innovation research. But do they really trace how ideas spill over between inventors—or are we mistaking legal paperwork for knowledge flows? 🧐

New on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit...

#patents #innovation #spillovers

Do more citations mean better patents? What patent citations really measure

🔎 Do more #patent citations mean better inventions?

A widely used metric in #innovation studies—but not always well understood. My new post on #ThePatentist reviews the evidence, from expert ratings and market prices to auction data and hybrid corn yields.

👉 www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit...

International Trade and Intellectual Property Let's talk about something other than tariffs

🗞️ International trade and intellectual property

The latest post on #ThePatentist discusses how #IPRs shape global commerce.

Spoiler: #trade is not only about #tariffs 😉

www.thepatentist.com/p/internatio...

#patent #innovation

The “strength” of patent systems Stronger does not necessarily mean better

🔍 The “Strength” of Patent Systems

The latest post on #ThePatentist dives into indices of the strength of #patent systems and discusses “twin patent” studies that reveal who's really setting the highest bar.

Spoiler: Stronger ≠ better.

open.substack.com/pub/thepaten...

📢 The next #REGIS seminar will occur this Friday, May 9, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET.

🤓 Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University 🇸🇪) will present the paper by Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond, titled "Generative AI at Work," published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025).