Geocoding of worldwide patent data

Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Jan Kozak and Florian Seliger ()
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Florian Seliger: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

No 19-458, KOF Working papers from KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich

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.

Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2019-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-his, nep-ind, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-tid and nep-ure
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