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    An Introduction to the Patstat Database with Example Queries

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    This paper provides an introduction to the Patstat patent database. It offers guided examples of ten popular queries that are relevant for research purposes and that cover the most important data tables. It is targeted at academic researchers and practitioners willing to learn the basics of the database.Comment: To appear in the Australian Economic Revie

    World Top R&D Investors: Industrial Property Strategies in the Digital Economy

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    The speed, scale and scope of the digital transformation and the widespread use of digital technologies in most aspects of our daily lives are changing the way we work, innovate, produce, interact and live. Knowledge flows almost instantaneously and digitalised information can be infinitely replicated, making the exploitation of knowledge a key factor for competitiveness. At the same time, changes at the local level may have global implications and innovation ecosystems become more and more global. These dynamics challenge policy making, and call for understanding the drivers of change, detecting trends in a timely fashion, and acting in a coordinated manner. The internet of things, digital manufacturing and 3D printing, industry 4.0 and big data are all components and drivers of the digital transformation, but the ways in which this new technological revolution will transform industries, countries and societies remain difficult to fully anticipate. As we become increasingly aware of the opportunities and the challenges of the digital economy, we also need to better understand how these technologies are forged and to identify the key players in such changes. The original data and statistics on the innovation output of the world's top corporate R&D investors presented in this report and its focus on digital technologies represent an important step towards this direction. It results from a long-term collaboration between the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and their joint efforts to provide up-to-date comparable data and state-of-the-art indicators and analysis. This report is directed at a number of stakeholders, including policy makers, industry representatives, practitioners and the scientific community. By exploiting information on patents, trademarks and designs, this work sheds light on the top R&D investors worldwide in the digital economy, their innovative and creative activities and their branding strategies. It is accompanied by a publicly available database that can be used for further analysis in support of evidence-based policy making.JRC.B.3-Territorial Developmen

    World Corporate Top R&D Investors: Innovation and IP bundles

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    Innovation and technological development are today main ingredients of countries' economic development strategies. This is based on evidence showing the importance of technical progress and innovation in increasing the efficiency in the use of labour and capital inputs (multi-factor productivity), one of the main drivers of GDP growth in most OECD countries for more than two decades. World regions and countries are competing to attract and retain those segments of the global value chains that most contribute to value and job creation. In a context of increasing globalisation and interdependence of knowledge generation and exploitation activities, policies aiming at reinforcing the scientific and technological competitiveness of economies need to rely on a wide range of science, technology and innovation indicators reflecting increasingly complex innovation systems. A main actor of innovation systems is the business sector. Evidence shows that a very large proportion of the R&D investments financed and executed by the business sector worldwide is concentrated in a relatively small number of world leading corporate innovators, in many cases large multinational groups. These companies also concentrate a significant proportion of the patents and trademarks filed in the most important intellectual property offices around the world. In this respect, the original data and statistics on the innovation output of world top corporate R&D investors presented in this report is extremely relevant for the support of evidence-based research and innovation policies. The report builds on the efforts to collect up-to-date, reliable and comparable company data on the top corporate R&D investors worldwide carried-out by the European Commission since 2004 (the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard publication) and on the solid knowledge and experience of the OECD in developing and providing robust and state of the art indicators on science, technology and industry (see for example OECD's STI Scoreboard publications). Essentially descriptive in nature, the company based data and statistics on the patents and trademarks portfolios of world top corporate investors open the door to further research and analysis about companies' global strategies for knowledge development and exploitation. The main target audience is the researcher community and policy analysts with an interest in supporting evidence-based policy making in the area of innovation and industrial policies. The underlying company data on patents and trademark will be made publicly available. The objective is to allow practitioners to make intensive use of this data to contribute to the advance of knowledge and empirical evidence on companies' innovative activities and performance.JRC.J.2-Knowledge for Growt

    World Top R&D Investors Intellectual Property

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    The collection contains the top 2000 R&D investors worldwide (Scoreboard edition 2015) and their patent, trademark and design portfolios. It is established biennually by the JRC.B3 in collaboration with the OECD STI. This is version 1 of the database..JRC.B.3-Territorial Developmen

    The Worldwide Count of Priority Patents: A New Indicator of Inventive Activity

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    This paper describes a new patent-based indicator of inventive activity. The indicator is based on counting all the priority patent applications filed by a country's inventors, regardless of the patent office in which the application is filed, and can therefore be considered as a complete matrix of all patent counts. The method has the advantage of covering more inventions than the selective Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) or triadic family counts, while at the same time limiting the home-country bias of single-country-based indicators (inventors from a particular country tend to file in their own country). The indicator is particularly useful for identifying emerging technologies and assessing the innovation performance of developing countries.JRC.J.3-Information Societ
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