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Foreign patenting activity in some of the world major patent systems is being compared between countries and industries and is found to be, with a few notable exceptions, relatively unbiased. Furthermore, a brief dynamic analysis of the foreign patenting activity in the USA of a number of OECD-countries in 41 industrial sectors in terms of ‘Revealed Technological Advantage’ indices suggests that foreign patent data might provide a very useful addition to the arsenal of Science and Technology Output Indicators.
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Soete, L.G., Wyatt, S.M.E. The use of foreign patenting as an internationally comparable science and technology output indicator. Scientometrics 5, 31–54 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02097176
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