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Market Value and Patent Citations: A First Look / Bronwyn H. Hall, Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Bronwyn H.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7741.
- NBER working paper series no. w7741
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Market Value and Patent Citations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000.
- Summary:
- As patent data become more available in machine-readable form, an increasing number of researchers have begun to use measures based on patents and their citations as indicators of technological output and information flow. This paper explores the economic meaning of these citation-based patent measures using the financial market valuation of the firms that own the patents. Using a new and comprehensive dataset containing over 4800 U. S. Manufacturing firms and their patenting activity for the past 30 years, we explore the contributions of R&D spending, patents, and citation-weighted patents to measures of Tobin's Q for the firms. We find that citation-weighted patent stocks are more highly correlated with market value than patent stocks themselves and that this fact is due mainly to the high valuation placed on firms that hold very highly cited patents.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2000.
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