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News

Nanotechnology: An Overview Based on Indicators and Statistics

26-Jun-2009

Governments around the world have invested heavily in nanotechnology R&D, and companies are also becoming increasingly engaged. Despite this promise, investments and company involvement in nanotechnology developments are still poorly monitored. The objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of developments through a systematic and critical analysis of available indicators and statistics.

Who Licenses Out Patents and Why? Lessons from a Business Survey

01-Apr-2009

This working paper analyses results of a business survey on the licensing-out of patents. The goal was to investigate the intensity of licensing to affiliated and non-affiliated companies, its evolution, the characteristics, motivations and obstacles met by companies licensing or willing to license.


Events

2009 Workshop on Trademarks and Trademark Data, OECD Conference Center, 16-17 July

from 16-Jul-2009 to 17-Jul-2009

INNO-tec and the OECD, with the support of the Strike network, are organizing an EPIP conference on Trademarks and Trademark data. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss current work and analyses conducted on trademarks from various perspectives, so as to better understand their functioning and their effect on firms and markets.

2009 Conference on Patent Statistics for Decision Makers, Vienna, 7-8 October 2009

from 07-Oct-2009 to 08-Oct-2009

Organised by the  EPO and the OECD, in cooperation with  DIME Network of Excellence, EPIP, Eurostat, JPO, NSF, USPTO and WIPO.

The goal of this conference is to discuss advances in the analysis of patent information in the context of the current economic landscape, and in light of changes within the patent system and its use by applicants.

Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI) 2008 / 2 edition

This biannual publication provides a set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD Member countries and nine non-member economies in the field of science and technology...

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.



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