Abstract

The dataset provides geographic coordinates for inventor and applicant locations in 18.8 million patent documents spanning over more than 30 years. The geocoded data are further allocated to the corresponding countries, regions and cities. When the address information was missing in the original patent document, we imputed it by using information from subsequent filings in the patent family. The resulting database can be used to study patenting activity at a fine-grained geographic level without creating bias towards the traditional, established patent offices.

Alternate abstract:

Measurement(s)patent • geographic locationTechnology Type(s)digital curation • geocodingFactor Type(s)geographic location • source • year

Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9970454

Details

Title
Geocoding of worldwide patent data
Author
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kozak, Jan 1 ; Seliger, Florian 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Chair of Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy, College Management of Technology, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 
2  KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 
Pages
1-15
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20524463
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0264-6
ProQuest document ID
2312545929
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.