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1. Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation www.oecd.org/sti
OECD Science, Technology and Innovation
Micro-data Lab
An infrastructure for research
The STI Micro-data Lab, a data infrastructure project of the OECD Directorate for Science,
Technology and Innovation (STI), collects and links large-scale administrative and
commercial micro-level datasets. These mainly relate to administrative data such as
intellectual property (IP) assets, including patents, trademarks and registered designs;
scientific publications; and information on companies from private providers. IP data
are collected in the framework of the OECD-led IP Statistics Task Force, which gathers
representatives from IP offices worldwide.
These micro-data, which complement and enhance official statistics like macro-
aggregated or survey-based data, have the advantage of being granular in nature
and comprehensive in time and geographical coverage.
By providing detailed information about the behaviour of economic agents
and the way science and technology develop, these data help
address policy-relevant questions, such as those related
to the generation and diffusion of new technologies,
the different ways in which firms innovate, science-
industry links, researchers’ mobility patterns or
the role of knowledge-based assets in firms’
economic performance.
Intellectual property rights
Patents, trademarks and designs
Scientific articles
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Making sense of data
The different micro datasets of the STI Micro-
data Lab can be used in an independent fashion,
e.g. to develop indicators related to specific ana-
lytical questions, or combined in such a way as
to generate new information related to a broader
array of issues or to more complex dynamics.
As IP data do not contain firm identification codes,
assigning IP rights to firms requires harmonising
and linking firms’ and IP assignees’ names
using word-matching algorithms.
To improve the granularity of analysis,
addresses are linked to about 5 500 intra-
country regions in more than 40 countries.
Experimental data mining techniques have
been developed to exploit information from IP
and bibliographic data and identify
accelerations in science and technology-
related activities (“bursts”).
Enterprises
Company names
Industrial sectors
Financial statements
Patents
Companies / institutions
Inventors
Technology / citations
Trademarks
Companies / institutions
Products / services
Scientific
articles
Affiliations / institutions
Articles / citations
Authors
Designs
Companies / institutions
Products
Creators
Industry-level
statistics
STAN family databases
Input-Output
TiVA
-Researchers
S&T indicators
R&D expenditures
Experimental analysis
The STI Micro-data Lab serves as a platform
for the development of new metrics and
methodologies, and feeds into a large range
of analyses. Experimental indicators built using
this infrastructure are regularly published by the
OECD, notably in the OECD Science, Technology
and Industry Scoreboard.
The STI Micro-data Lab is open to visiting
researchers. Access is granted free of charge
upon the submission of a formal request,
and subject to the respect of confidentiality
rules and to the project being of mutual
interest to the OECD and the visiting
fellow(s).
Specific micro-data sets are made
available upon request (for instance:
the OECD’s REGPAT, HAN or Patent Quality
databases as well as the EC-JRC/OECD
COR&DIP©
database).
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R&D ranking of companies
R&D expenditures Patents Trademarks
R&D expenditures and the IP bundle of the top 2 000 R&D companies, 2012
Source: OECD, STI Scoreboard 2015, based on STI Micro-data Lab: Intellectual Property Database, June 2015.
Statistical insights
Details about
the location
of authors,
inventor and
designers or
about applicants’ names
and addresses shed light on scientific,
inventive, branding and design activities
occuring in different countries,
and on how different actors interact.
The technology, design and product domains
that IP rights protect can be inferred from the
technology or product classification codes
provided in IP documents.
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% of patents
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FRA
JPN
DEU
USA
% of trademarks / designs
European market
Patents TrademarksDesigns
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% of patents
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DEU
KOR
JPN
USA
% of trademarks
US market
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% of patents
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FRA
KOR
DEU
USA
JPN
% of trademarks / designs
Japanese market
83%
IP bundle of top five applicants, 2011-13
Source: OECD, STI Scoreboard 2015,
based on STI Micro-data Lab: Intellectual Property Database, June 2015.
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Japan United States Korea Chinese Taipei Germany China Italy
Number of patents, 2010-12
Top players in emerging technologies, 2010-12
Share of top three economies’ patents in top 20 technologies bursting from 2005 onwards
Source: OECD, STI Scoreboard 2015, based on STI Micro-data Lab: Intellectual Property Database, June 2015.
Going further
IP data - http://oe.cd/ipstats
Scientometrics - http://oe.cd/scientometrics
Contact us
sti.microdatalab@oecd.org
Recent methodological work exploits
information contained in patent
documents to construct indicators
mirroring the technological and economic
value of patented inventions, and their
possible impact on subsequent
technological developments.