Abramovsky, L. and Griffith, R. and Macartney, G. and Miller, H. (2008) The location of innovative activity in Europe. (IFS Working Papers WP08/10). Institute for Fiscal Studies: London, UK.
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Abstract
In this paper we use new data to describe how firms from 15 European countries organise their innovative activities. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe the data in detail.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | The location of innovative activity in Europe |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/4346 |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | F21, F23, O3, H3 |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of Arts and Social Sciences > Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences > Economics |
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