Matching VentureOne (Data)

McNair Project

Matching VentureOne (Data)
Project Information
Project Title
Start Date
Deadline
Primary Billing
Notes
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Overview

In this matching process, we will join patent data to VentureOne companies and count the number of patents that affiliated to each company.

Raw Data

Original data set of VentureOne companies can be found at: E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\Venture Data 1.xlsx

• All Variables: EntityName,Employees, City, State, Zip, AreaCode, Business Status, IndustryGroup...etc
• Variables used for matching: EntityName

Original patent data is in our database: 128.42.44.181/bulk/allpatentsprocessed

Procedure

We first get the standard company names for VentureOne companies from the source VentureOne data set. Then we standardize the names of the companies that have patents from our patent database. Based on the common standard company names, we join patent information to VentureOne companies.

Final Matched Tables

1. Summary table displaying number of patents owned, minimum grant year, maximum grant year and average grant year for each company (including the ones that own no patents). It can be found at:E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\venturesummary.txt
2. A table contains all patent information for the companies that have patents and can be found at E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\venturefullyjoined.txt

Desired Variables

Below is the list of variables that were in the STATA file we were given:

Contains data from C:\Users\ArielSun\Downloads\allpats_3sectors_06jun13.dta
  obs:        19,409                          
 vars:            36                          11 Jun 2016 17:31
 size:    10,655,541                          (_dta has notes)
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              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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id_vone         double  %9.0g                 VentureOne id
name            str39   %39s                  startup name
patent          str9    %9s                   patno in string
apn             str6    %6s                   pat application number
nmi             str40   %40s                  inventor name
ttl             str244  %40s                  invention title
nma             str65   %65s                  original assignee
ocd             str15   %15s                  main us patent class
icd             str15   %15s                  main intl patent class
apd             float   %td                   application date
gdateold        float   %td                   Grant date
fnd_year        float   %8.0g                 startup founding year
last_yr         float   %9.0g               * OLD last_yr, 2006; see notes
source          byte    %8.0g                 1 if 2012 delphion searches; else from 2004/5 search
pdate           float   %td                   priority date, delphion; may pre-date application date if provisional apps
utility         float   %9.0g               * 1 if utility patent as initially awarded; 0 if other (reissued, reexamed, design
state_country   str3    %9s                   state/country of first inventor listed
asscode         float   %9.0g                 assignee code; basic.dta
ayear           int     %9.0g                 application year
amonth          byte    %9.0g                 application month
atype           str1    %9s                 * initial assignee type; see notes
class           str3    %9s                   3 digit us pat class
subclass        str6    %9s                   patent subclass
gdate           int     %d                    grant, or issuance, date
industry        str15   %15s                  semi, software, or med devices
state_hq        str2    %9s                   firm hq location; vone
status06        str4    %9s                 * status of firm known in 2006; rhs truncation varies by sector
exitdate        str8    %9s                   exit date, if known
exityr          str4    %9s                   exit year, if known
status08        str6    %9s                 * status of firm in 2008, see notes
last_yr08       int     %8.0g               * exityr if ipo/acq, else 2008
dcohort         float   %9.0g                 1 if founding yr during 1987-99
lastyr08_minu~r float   %9.0g                 
dsearch_assign  float   %9.0g                 1 if searches of pat assignment data need to be conducted; carlosn confirm?
carlos_chk      float   %9.0g                 carlos: pls confirm assignment data = compiled for these pats
entityid        long    %12.0g                unique startup id as of 2008, vone
                                            * indicated variables have notes
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Detailed Data Processing

• Get the VentureOne data ready

1. Source file for VentureOne data E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\Venture Data 1.xlsx Original data source
2. Clean it up E:\McNair\Software\Scripts\Matcher\Input\Venture Data 1.txt extraneous symbols and words removed
3. Match it against itself to get standardized entity names E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\Cleaned and Matched Data.xlsx

• Get the patent data ready

1. Draw the distinct assignees Z:\allpatentsprocessed\DistinctAssignees2.txt
2. Match them against themselves to get standardized org names for patent data Z:\allpatentsprocessed\DistinctAssignees2matched.txt

• Match standardized org names of patent data to standardized entity names of venture data

Z:\allpatentsprocessed\Venture Patent Matched.txt

• Join patent data to venture data to get patent information of each venture-backed company

1. Join patent data to assignee data, creating firstjoin_cleaned which matches assignees to patent numbers.
2. Join firstjoin_cleaned data to matchassignee data, creating secondjoin_cleaned which matches standard org names to patent numbers
3. Join secondjoin_cleaned data to venturepatentmatched data, creating fourthjoin_cleaned which matches standard venture company names to patent numbers

• Final summary tables

1. Summary table displaying number of patents owned, minimum grant year, maximum grant year and average grant year for each company E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\venturepatentreallyfinal.txt
2. A table of all patent information for each company that has patents E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\venturepatentfullyjoined.txt

• Notes

1. All data in allpatentsprocessed database. Access it by logging on to researcher@McNair DBServ:/bulk/allpatentsprocessed
2. A script of detailed processing procedure can be found at E:\McNair\Projects\Venture One Data\patent data script.txt