Patents, citations, and innovations, a window on the knowledge ec

I Conceptual and Methodological Foundations. II Then Geography of Knowledge Spillovers. III Policy-Motivated Evaluation of Institutions and Countries. IV The Patents and Citations Data: A Close-up. The book includes a CD with complete data on 3 million patents with more than 16 millions citations and a range of author-devised measures of the importance, generality, and originality of patented innovations.