SGER: Development of an Industrial Database on Licensing Patterns

SRS 96-15976 链接 这项创新研究的目的是探索开发美国公司许可模式定量信息数据库的可行性。 预计该数据库将提供跨公司和行业的第一个系统信息，了解通过许可安排而不是通过研发或其他外部来源获取技术知识的倾向。 此外，基于可用的有限的程式化信息，许可活动似乎是技术知识来源组合的重要组成部分，企业将其作为其整体创新战略的一部分。 拟议的研究进入了一个重要的研究领域，即跨行业理解和记录公司以前未探索过的技术信息组合的一个要素。 虽然创新相关文献中确立了技术信息来源的广泛主题，但正在提供一种新的、探索性的方法来记录许可活动的模式。 拟议的程序使用法律决定来识别许可活动，然后将这些许可安排的各方与专利引用进行匹配。 然后，使用许可和专利引用的证据来预测跨行业的许可模式。 普遍使用引用计数来探索技术流还处于起步阶段。 本研究试图以一种新颖的方式将专利的引用计数与从法律决定中获得的许可证据结合起来。 如果这种方法成功，调查人员将开始填补技术许可信息中的明显空白。 ***

SRS 96-15976 Link The purpose of this innovative study is to explore the feasibility of developing a database of quantitative information on the licensing patterns of U. S. firms. It is expected that this database will provide the first systematic information across firms and industries on the propensity to acquire technical knowledge through licensing arrangements rather than through their R&D or through other external sources. Moreover, licensing activity appears, based on the limited stylized information available, to be an important element of the portfolio of sources of technical knowledge that firms draw upon as a part of their overall innovative strategy. The proposed study ventures into an important research area, namely understanding and documenting across industries an element of a firm's portfolio of technical information previously unexplored. While the broad topic of sources of technical information is established in the innovation related literature, a new, albeit exploratory, approach for documenting patterns of licensing activity is being offered. The proposed procedure uses legal decisions to identify licensing activities and then matches the parties to those licensing arrangements to patent citations. The evidence on licensing and patent citations is then used to predict licensing patterns across industries. The general use of citation counts to explore technology flows is in its infancy. This study attempts to combine in a novel way citation counts for patents with evidence about licensing obtained from legal decisions. If this approach is successful, the investigators will have begun to fill the conspicuous void in information about the licensing of technology. ***