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patent generality index: a standalone construct

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Innovation management

a patent-based measure of how widely the later patents citing a patent are spread across technology classes, indicating broad downstream impact.

In innovation management, patent generality index refers to a patent-based measure of how widely the later patents citing a patent are spread across technology classes, indicating broad downstream impact. This meaning comes from Trajtenberg (1997) in Economics of Innovation and New Technology.[1]

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References

Trajtenberg, M., Henderson, R., & Jaffe, A. (1997). University Versus Corporate Patents: A Window On The Basicness Of Invention. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 5(1), 19-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599700000006

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