The Measurement of Scientific and Technological Activities Using Patent Data as Science and Technology Indicators [electronic resource]: Patent Manual

Analysts and policy makers have made increasing use of patent indicators to analyse the rate and direction of technological activity. The Patents Manual, issued in 1994, provides information on how patent data can be used as indicators, and also shows how these can be linked to other statistics on science, technology and economic activity (R&D, scientific publications, trade, production, etc.). Introduction Chapter 1. Background and Conceptual Framework Chapter 2. Systems of Patent Law Chapter 3. From Patent Documents to the Technological State-of-the-Art Information they can provide Chapter 4. Patent Indicators in the Analysis of Science, Technology and the Economy Annex I. Front pages of patent documents filed in selected patent offices Annex II. Specimen information available from leading patent databases Annex III. A. An example of how the IPC classification can be built upon: the OST-INPI/FhG-ISI technology nomenclature Annex IV A. Concordance between IPC and SITC for 46 high technology product groups developed by ENEA, CESPRI and Politecnico di Milano Annex IV B. Matrix of production and use of the invention based on Canadian patents granted to companies classified by industry of manufacture and industry of use, 1986 to 1989 Bibliography