@techreport{ w7552, title = "Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)", author = "Wesley M. Cohen and Richard R. Nelson and John P. Walsh", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "7552", year = "2000", month = "February", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w7552", }