annual observations of 181 firms from 1983 to 1991
number of observations : 1629
country : world
economic topic : producer behavior
econometrics topic : count data
data(PatentsRD)
A dataframe containing :
firm's id
year
firm's main industry sector, one of aero (aerospace), chem (chemistry), comput (computer), drugs, elec (electricity), food, fuel (fuel and mining), glass, instr (instruments), machin (machinery), metals, other, paper, soft (software), motor (motor vehicules)
geographic area, one of eu (European Union), japan, usa, rotw (rest of the world)
numbers of European patent applications
log of R and D expenditures
log of spillovers
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.