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Dominique Guellec

French economist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ3035211 ↗
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Dominique Guellec is a French economist. He formerly held the post of chief economist at the European Patent Office (EPO) (2004–2005). He is senior economist at Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) where he is in charge of the department monitoring innovation policies.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dominique Guellec” as french economist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953. The account is most persuasive where Dominique, Guellec and French can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as french economist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3035211. VIAF identifies the subject as 32081076. The Library of Congress control number is n94114508. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dominique Guellec” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.