Fernández Donoso, José2016-01-152016-01-152016-01http://hdl.handle.net/11447/152Patents are the main source of data on innovation. Since most of the innovative activity happens outside of the patenting system, and since patents –and innovations- have different quality, complexity, and impact on each market, unweighted sums of patents and proxies are a bad indicator of a country’s innovative activity. I generate a very simple index of innovation that weights patents and exports by a complexity measure. Country rankings using this measure are consistent with market size, GDP per capita, and technological development of each country21 pagesspaInnovationMesure of innovationPatentingTechnological developmentDocumento de trabajo