[EN] References in patent documents are information sources about access to public knowledge, on which the invention’s novelty, or lack thereof, can be justified. Usually references are broken down by type of cited ...

Acosta M., Azagra-Caro J. M. and Coronado D. Access to universities' public knowledge: who is more regionalist?, Regional Studies. This paper tracks university-to-firm patent citations rather than the more usual patent-to-patent ...