The industry R&D survey
Subtitle: patent database link project
By: William R. Kerr, Shihe Fu
Contributors: Fu, Shihe; Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 07-031; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 07-031
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Other titles: Industry R & D survey; Industry R and D survey
Description: This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry R&D Survey conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a name-matching algorithm customized for uniting the firm names to which patents are assigned with the firm names in Census Bureau's SSEL business registry. Through the Census Bureau's file structure, this R&D platform can be linked to the operating performances of each firm's establishments, further facilitating innovation-to-productivity studies.
Notes: "13 November 2006"--Added t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.