*University-owned patents (assigned to universities or their TTOs) and university-invented patents (assigned to university-affiliated authors)
*matching Matching lists: traditional matching of lists of university staff/professors with inventor data**time-consuming, costly, possibly not updated**typically limited to tenured professors**does not include Ph.D. students, assistants, lecturers*matching authors of scientific publications and inventors on patents**beware of homonyms
Matched authors of scientific publications and inventors on patents
*beware of homonyms
Patent data from EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT)
Publication data from Elsevier (Scopus)
Country of origin: Inventor Country/Assignee Country/Applicant Country = Germany, Location of Organization to which author is affiliated =Germany
*Restrict dataset to authors from German organizations and inventors with residence in Germany
The organization
Names: To keep precision high, leave out names with initials only
Location: Postal/zip codes (PATSTAT provides address of inventor's residence, SCOPUS provides info for organization, 96.5% of first digit of inventor and organization postal codes are the same, 85.9% first two digits)
Time window: 2-year window between application and publication date
=== Singh A. and Wong P.K: University patenting activities and their link to the quantity and quality of scientific publications (2009) ===