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Griliches, Z. (1998). Patent statistics as economic indicators: a survey.
 
==USPTO==
 
===Patent Quality===
 
Michael D. Frakes & Mellissa F. Wasserman, Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents?: Evidence from Micro-Level Application, NBER Working Paper No. 20337 (July 2014) [http://www.nber.org/papers/w20337]
 
*"on average, an examiner spends only nineteen hours reviewing an application, including reading the patent application, searching for prior art, comparing the prior art with the patent application, writing a rejection, responding to the patent applicant’s arguments, and often conducting an interview with the applicant’s attorney"
 
==Agencies Conducting Basic Research==
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