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1. flipd OPEN – Open firm-linked patent-data for indicator
development: Norwegian patent applicants 1995–2014
It follows changing patenting path-
ways in Norway
Nasjonalt
patent
Nasjonal
validering
Nasjonal
validering
Førstesøknad Søknad med prioritet
Regional søknad
Internasjonal
førstesøknad
(direkte-PCT)
Nasjonalt
patent
Europeisk
førstesøknad
(direkte-EP)
Internasjonal søknad i
nasjonal/regional fase
Nasjonalt
patent
Nasjonal
validering
Internasjonal søknad
Eric Iversen (NIFU), Bjarne Kvam (the Norwegian Industrial Property Organization), Paul Istvan Bencze (the Research Council of Norway), Frank Foyn (Statistics Norway)
Flipd Open is a firm-linked patent
dataset, that captures
1. Patent applications in Norway (via domestic,
PCT and, later, EPO), validated linked organizati-
on information such as firm-size, industrial classifi-
cations, and critical firm-demographic dates.
2. links to common identifiers found in Patstat (per-
son_ids), OECD (han_id), and Eurostat (hrm_ids);
3. Reference documentation of the joint- validati-
on effort employed, where diffet national relevant
national bodies (researchers, the patent office and
statistical office) are involved.
4. An arrangement with users (GPL), to integrate
improvements and to stabilize the dataset based
on a Norwegian License for Public Data (NLOD)
Flipd Open links to ­Patent
­information
Flipd Open contains applicant information for 5000
­entities involved in 15000 domestic patent applications
Publication
year
Applications * Commercial
­applicants**
Identified
­commercial**
­applicants
1995–1999 6,303 60 % 94 %
2000–2004 6,141 67 % 95 %
2005–2009 6,012 73 % 97 %
2010–2014 5,481 74 % 93 %
* w/ Norwegian applicants
** Share of applicants that are organizations
Coverage of domestic patent applications (1995-2014)
Technological fields (colors) and Industrial Field of applicants (y-axis): 1995–2014
Flipd Open and documentation is available at: https://statistics.patentstyret.no/Patent/OtherStatistics
The aim here is to integrate the overlapping efforts of Norway’s statistical
community to improve patent-data for research purposes and policy development.
The dataset consists of a comprehensive population of cleaned, matched, and va-
lidated links between Norwegian patent applicant names and national business
registries. Building on earlier work in Norway (eg Iversen, 2003), the approach
complements ongoing work at the international level (OECD, Eurostat and elsew-
here) as well as past work to open ancillary patent data (e.g. OST/INPI/ISI; NBER,
2001). It follows the leading work of IP Australia on this front (IP Australia, 2014).
The common objective of this work is to further enrich patent-data patent-statistics
for research purposes, with the aim of opening up the ‘unique’ potential patent-sta-
tistics have to analyze technological change in general (cf. Griliches, 1990) and
policy- development in particular. Our contribution aims to go beyond opening up
a validated dataset of this link. We demonstrate a joint-approach involving relevant
national actors with detailed knowledge of relevant datasets, we supply standard
documentation of the validated links, we seek to involve data-users to further im-
prove the data, and we demonstrate indicators that can be derived to address spe-
cific policy-concerns. The overall package addresses the potential to improve the
interaction between the international and national activities on this front.
Introduction