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1. Joining Firm Innovation data with Patent Data, a Practice of Combining NSI Data with Administrative Data; 19 Sep 2018; OECD Paris
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Joining Firm Innovation data with Patent Data,
a Practice of Combining NSI Data with Administrative Data
Jia GAO1
, Fengxin LI1
, Lei LIU1
, Peng ZHANG2
, and Feng ZHEN3
1
State Intellectual Property Office of China
2
National Beaurau of Statistics of China; 3
Renmin University of China
19 September 2018, OECD, Paris

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Contents
 Background
 Intellectual Property Data
 Data Consolidation
 Interesting Results
 Summary
Acronyms and abbreviations
- SIPO: State Intellectual Property Office
- CNIPO: China National Intellectual Property Office
- NBS: National Bureau of Statistics
- RUC: Renmin University of China
- NSI: National Statistics Institution

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Background
 How to understand innovation mechanism, especially in industrial firms
 Strategy of building a innovative country in 2006 emphasize R&D input and firm innovation
 SIPO China1
pay attention to analyze patent data, and it initiated the work in 2011
 Innovation data in NBS China
 Close cooperation2
between SIPO & NBS
 Introduce academia to enhance analysis in 2017
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SIPO China changed its name to China National Intellectual Property Office (CNIPO) on 28 August 2018
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The statistics department in SIPO China is Planning and Development Division, and the innovation data concentrates in Department of
Social, Science and technology, and Cultural Statistics in NBS China

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Contents
 Background
 Intellectual Property Data
 Data Consolidation
 Interesting Results
 Summary

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Intellectual Property Data
State Council
State Administration for Market
Regulation
State Administration of
Press, Publication,
Radio, Film and
Television
Trademark
Office
SIPO /
NIPO (after 28 Aug)
Patent Trademark Copyright
State Council
State Administration for
Industry & Commerce
State Administration of
Press, Publication,
Radio, Film and
Television
Trademark
OfficeSIPO
Patent Trademark Copyright
(Before March 2018) (After March 2018)

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Contents
 Background
 Intellectual Property Data
 Data Consolidation
 Interesting Results
 Summary

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Data Consolidation
NBS ChinaSIPO China
Patent Firm Patent Firm Data
Aggregated
Level of Data
index with legal person
code
RUC Research Team
Data AnalysisReport & Opening Forms

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Contents
 Background
 Intellectual Property Data
 Data Consolidation
 Interesting Results
 Summary

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Interesting Results: Positive relations among R&D input, patent and profit
Industrial firms
above designed scale 1
Without R&D With R&D
Profit Profit R&D expenditure
All firms 12. 3 41.5 12.6
of which: with patent application 20.1 55.6 17.9
patent granted 21.6 56.0 18.2
patent in force 18.5 48.8 15.6
PCT application 2
181.3 319.7 110.8
Average Profit of Firms across R&D and Patent in 2016 RMB million
1
There were 378,579 industrial firms above designed scale
2
There were 15,452 PCT application in 2016

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Mismatch of R&D and Patent in 2016 %
Patent activity With R&D but without patent activity With patent activity but without R&D
Any patent activities 33.19 43.20
Application (domestic) 54.54 36.55
PCT application 98.58 15.16
Granted 56.25 34.87
In force 36.01 41.19
Interesting Results: Mismatch of R&D and patent is large

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Interesting Results: Long-term development of patent has high pressure
Increase of Patent in Force and Invention Patent in Force from 2012 to 2016 %
Year Patent in force Invention patent in force R&D expenditure
2016 13.01 26.31 8.52
2015 17.54 31.51 5.91
2014 14.89 21.52 13.17
2013 28.68 30.05 17.89
2012 49.42 51.96 -

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Patent Concentration in Selected Provinces in 2016
Province % of firms
% of patents
Application PCT application Granted In force
Jiangsu 12.65 17.93 6.81 15.92 14.95
Zhejiang 10.60 14.80 3.48 16.75 15.58
Guangdong 11.27 16.08 75.10 14.97 17.75
Sub-total 34.53 48.81 85.39 47.64 48.28
Interesting Results: High concentration in developed regions

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Patent Activities by Firm's Ownership in 2016
Ownership % of total firms
% of firms with patent activity
Application PCT application Granted In force
Domestic funded 86.91 16.0 0.3 14.9 24.1
of which: Private 56.61 14.4 0.2 13.4 22.0
Funds from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan 6.19 20.3 0.8 19.6 31.4
Foreign funded 6.90 19.0 0.8 18.4 30.1
Interesting Results: Private firms have higher pressure in innovation

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Mismatch Ratio of Patent Application from 2011 to 2016 %
2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
3.49 6.28 -1.99 10.29 8.03 3.94
* mismatch ratio = (SIPO number - NBS number) / SIPO number * 100
Interesting Results: Double check of the micro data
SIPO NBS
A CB
A – not in the database
B – the main part
C – in the database
Other reasons: time lag, error…

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Contents
 Background
 Intellectual Property Data
 Data Consolidation
 Interesting Results
 Summary

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 Simple but not easy work between administration institution and NSI, supported by “big data”
 Big data in official statistics
(1) Joining NSIs data with administrative data – realistic
(2) Other resources or methods – challenge to traditional statistics
 Mechanism of data consolidation is important
 Start from (1) intellectual property, financial and banking, customs
(2) sampling frame of NSIs, like registration information of people and firms.
 Emphasis of Metadata in not only NSIs but also administration institutions
Summary: Administrative data and NSIs data

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Q&A
Thanks!
ZHEN Feng
Associate Professor
School of Statistics, Renmin University of China
No.59, Zhongguancun Avenue, 100872, Beijing, China P.R.
Tel:8610-82500157,Fax:8610-62515246
E-mail: zhen@ruc.edu.cn
Where is the wisdom we have lost
in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost
in information?
--T. S. Eliot. The Rock (1934)