OECD patent statistics manual.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: OECD; OCDE; OECD Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9789264054127
Subjects: Patents (International law); Patents -- Statistics; Technological innovations -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics
Other titles: Measure of scientific and technological activities--using patent data as science and technology indicators.
Description: This publication takes stock of the recent developments in the field. It provides guiding principles for the use of patent data in the context of S&T measurement, and recommendations for the compilation and interpretation of patent indicators in this context. It aims to show what patent statistics can and cannot be used for, and how to count patents in order to maximize information on S&T activities while minimizing statistical noise and biases. Finally, it describes how patent data can be used in the analysis of a wide array of topics related to technical change and patenting activity including industry-science linkages, patenting strategies by companies, internationalization of research, and indicators on the value of patents.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This is a revised version of the 1994 OECD manual (The Measurement of Scientific and Technological Activities: Using Patent Data as Science and Technology Indicators) ..."---p. 14.

"The Patent Statistics Manual belongs to the Frascati family of OECD manuals dealing wiht the measurement of scientific and technical activities ..."---p. 3

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Objectives and scope of the manual; title: Patents as statistical indicators of science and technology; title: Patent systems and procedures; title: Basic criteria for compiling patent-based indicators; title: Classifying patents by different criteria; title: The use and analysis of citations in patents; title: Indicators of the internationalisation of science and technology; title: Indicators of patent value.