Intellectual Property Rights

The OECD explores the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in stimulating the diffusion of knowledge and fostering innovation. It studies the economic impact of IP regimes in high-tech industries and in public research; assesses policies and institutional practices for IP management and exploitation; and develops indicators to assess the effectiveness of technology transfer.

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OECD Compendium of Patent Statistics 2008

12-Sep-2008

This document provides a snapshot of the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. The indicators presented are specifically designed to reflect recent trends in inventive activities across a wide range of OECD member and non-member countries.

Conference on Patent Statistics for Policy Decision-making

from 03-Sep-2008 to 04-Sep-2008

Organised by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the OECD, the goal of this conference was to reflect recent advances in the area of analysis with patent statistics.

Presentation of the OECD "REGPAT" database

06-Jun-2008

This database presents patent data linked to regions according to the addresses of the applicants and inventors. The data have been regionalised at a very detailed level so that over 2000 regions are covered across OECD countries. REGPAT allows patent data to be used in connection with other regional data, thus providing researchers with the means to develop a rich set of new indicators and undertake a broad range of analyses to address the regional dimension of innovation.

Intellectual assets and value creation

19-May-2008

Intellectual assets are central to value creation, economic growth and competitiveness in a modern economy. Building on previous OECD work on these issues, this brochure provides an integrated perspective on recent OECD work covering three dimensions: macro, regional and firm-level.

"Nowcasting" patent indicators

12-Oct-2007

This new STI working paper aims at designing simple but robust methods that would enable to forecast the present (or recent past) in order to improve the timeliness of patent indicators.

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Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of the OECD conference that brought together leading economists, legal experts, patent officials, policy makers and business executives to exchange views on how patent regimes can contribute more efficiently to innovation and economic performance.

Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance

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Presenting the results of the first international survey on the patenting and licensing activities of public research organisations in OECD countries

Turning Science into Business: Patenting and Licensing at Public Research Organisations