The worldwide count of priority patents: A new indicator of inventive activity

被引:184
作者
de Rassenfosse, Gaetan [1 ,2 ]
Dernis, Helene [3 ]
Guellec, Dominique [3 ]
Picci, Lucio [4 ,5 ]
de la Potterie, Bruno van Pottelsberghe [6 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Inst Appl Econ & Social Res, Carlton, Vic 3010, Australia
[2] Intellectual Property Res Inst Australia, Carlton, Vic 3010, Australia
[3] Org Econ Cooperat & Dev, F-75775 Paris 16, France
[4] Univ Bologna, Dept Econ, I-40125 Bologna, Italy
[5] IPTS JRC, Seville 41092, Spain
[6] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels Sch Econ & Management, iCite, ECARES, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[7] CEB, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
Patent count; Patent indicator; Patent statistics; Patstat; Priority count; Priority filing; Worldwide count; PRICE ELASTICITY; TECHNOLOGY; STATISTICS; CITATIONS;
D O I
10.1016/j.respol.2012.11.002
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
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 families 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 to identify emerging technologies and to assess the innovation performance of developing economies. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:720 / 737
页数:18
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