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The OECD REGPAT Database: A Presentation (STI Working Paper 2008/2)

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06-Jun-2008

by Stéphane Maraut, Hélène Dernis, Colin Webb, Vincenzo Spiezia and Dominique Guellec

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 more than 2000 regions are covered across OECD countries.

Nowcasting Patent Indicators (STI Working Paper 2007/3)

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12-Oct-2007

by Hélène Dernis

This study aims at designing simple but robust methods that would enable to "nowcast", i.e. forecast the present (or the recent past), in order to improve the timeliness of patent indicators.

Compendium of Patent Statistics 2007

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28-Sep-2007

This report presents various patent indicators to reflect recent trends in innovative activity across a wide range of OECD and non-OECD countries. 

Compendium of Patent Statistics 2005

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01-Feb-2006

This report presents various patent indicators to reflect recent trends in innovative activity across a wide range of OECD and non-OECD countries. The data for the latest years are estimates.  

Analysing European and International Patent Citations: A Set of EPO Patent Database Building Blocks (STI Working Paper 2005/9)

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18-Oct-2005

by Colin Webb and Hélène Dernis (OECD); Dietmar Harhoff and Karin Hoisl (LMU, University of Munich)

This paper presents a preliminary set of European and international citation data tables designed to enable researchers to become familiar with the subject and undertake a range of analyses.

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

Editor's Choice

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