Measuring the International Mobility of Inventors: A New Database Dataset.

Measuring the International Mobility of Inventors: A New Database Dataset.

2013

This paper has two objectives. First, it describes a new database mapping migratory patterns of inventors, extracted from information included in patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. It explains in detail the information contained in the database and discusses the usefulness and reliability of the underlying data. Second, the paper provides a descriptive overview of inventor migration patterns, based on the information contained in the newly constructed database.

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Geneva, Switzerland : World Intellectual Property Organization, 2013