flipd OPEN – Open firm-linked patent-data for indicator development: Norwegian patent applicants 1995–2014

It follows changing patenting path-ways in Norway

Nas jonalt patent

Nas jonal va l idering

Nas jonal va l idering

Førstesøknad Søknad med prioritet

Regional søknad

Internasjonal førstesøknad(direkte-PCT)

Nas jonalt patent

Europeisk førstesøknad(direkte-EP)

Internasjonal søknad i nasjonal/regional fase

Nas jonalt patent

Nas jonal va l idering

Internasjonal søknad

Eric Iversen (NIFU), Bjarne Kvam (the Norwegian Industrial Property Organization), Paul Istvan Bencze (the Research Council of Norway), Frank Foyn (Statistics Norway)

Flipd Open is a firm-linked patent dataset, that captures 1. Patent applications in Norway (via domestic, PCT and, later, EPO), validated linked organizati-on information such as firm-size, industrial classifi-cations, and critical firm-demographic dates. 2. links to common identifiers found in Patstat (per-son_ids), OECD (han_id), and Eurostat (hrm_ids); 3. Reference documentation of the joint- validati-on effort employed, where diffet national relevant national bodies (researchers, the patent office and statistical office) are involved. 4. An arrangement with users (GPL), to integrate improvements and to stabilize the dataset based on a Norwegian License for Public Data (NLOD)

Flipd Open links to Patent information

Flipd Open contains applicant information for 5000 entities involved in 15000 domestic patent applicationsPublication year

Applications * Commercial applicants**

Identified commercial**

applicants1995–1999 6,303 60 % 94 %2000–2004 6,141 67 % 95 %2005–2009 6,012 73 % 97 %2010–2014 5,481 74 % 93 %* w/ Norwegian applicants

** Share of applicants that are organizations

Coverage of domestic patent applications (1995-2014)

Technological fields (colors) and Industrial Field of applicants (y-axis): 1995–2014

Flipd Open and documentation is available at: https://statistics.patentstyret.no/Patent/OtherStatistics

The aim here is to integrate the overlapping efforts of Norway’s statistical community to improve patent-data for research purposes and policy development. The dataset consists of a comprehensive population of cleaned, matched, and va-lidated links between Norwegian patent applicant names and national business registries. Building on earlier work in Norway (eg Iversen, 2003), the approach complements ongoing work at the international level (OECD, Eurostat and elsew-here) as well as past work to open ancillary patent data (e.g. OST/INPI/ISI; NBER, 2001). It follows the leading work of IP Australia on this front (IP Australia, 2014).

The common objective of this work is to further enrich patent-data patent-statistics for research purposes, with the aim of opening up the ‘unique’ potential patent-sta-tistics have to analyze technological change in general (cf. Griliches, 1990) and policy- development in particular. Our contribution aims to go beyond opening up a validated dataset of this link. We demonstrate a joint-approach involving relevant national actors with detailed knowledge of relevant datasets, we supply standard documentation of the validated links, we seek to involve data-users to further im-prove the data, and we demonstrate indicators that can be derived to address spe-cific policy-concerns. The overall package addresses the potential to improve the interaction between the international and national activities on this front.

Introduction