Measuring the International Mobility of Inventors: A New Database

• Author(s): Ernest Miguelez, Carsten Fink, World Intellectual Property Organization,
• Publisher: WIPO
• Pages: 32
• Language: en
• Categories: Law / Intellectual Property / Patent ,

Description:... 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.