The dataset contains information on inventors listed in patent application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It cover
We studied the Japan and U.S. patent records of several decades to demonstrate the effect of collaboration on innovation. We found that statistically inventor teams slightly outperform solo inventors
Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than their purely domestic counterparts. To better understand this correlation, we incorp
