The NBER Patent Citations Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools

Abstract

This paper pulls together material from multiple research projects spanning approximately a decade, and hence it would be impossible to thank everyone who contributed to it. Still, our co-authors Rebecca Henderson and Michael Fogarty, and research assistants Meg Fernando, Abi Rubin, Guy Michaels and Michael Katz deserve special thanks. Above all, this paper – indeed much of the patent-related research of the past two decades – could never have come to pass without the inspiration, support and