China's AI patent lead may vanish once quality and incentives are accounted for
avicgoldfarb · x · 2026-09-26
Citing Branstetter et al. at the NBER Economics of AI conference: China's apparent lead in AI patents may not be a lead at all once various measures of quality and filing incentives are taken into account.
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