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The technology frontier that was dominated by the United States, Europe and Japan in the early 2000s is now much more polarised between the American and Chinese patent offices. Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise show that the gap in the quality of patents is also closing - and highlight potential barriers to continued technological innovation.
Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise
21 February 2023 Paper Number CEPCP649
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This work is published under POID and the CEP's Growth programme.
This publication comes under the following CEP theme: R&D and innovation, New technologies and productivity