SGER: Development of an Industrial Database on Licensing Patterns

SRS96-15976链接这项创新研究的目的是探索开发一个有关美国公司许可模式的定量信息数据库的可行性。预计该数据库将提供各公司和行业关于通过许可安排而不是通过其研发或通过其他外部来源获取技术知识的倾向的第一次系统信息。此外，基于可获得的有限的程式化信息，许可活动似乎是公司作为其整体创新战略的一部分而利用的技术知识来源组合中的一个重要因素。这项拟议的研究涉及到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的技术信息组合中的一个要素。虽然与创新有关的文献确立了技术信息来源这一广泛的主题，但正在为记录许可活动的模式提供一种新的、尽管是探索性的方法。拟议的程序使用法律决定来确定许可活动，然后将这些许可安排的各方与专利引用相匹配。然后，关于许可和专利引用的证据被用来预测各行业的许可模式。通常使用引用计数来探索技术流动还处于初级阶段。这项研究试图以一种新颖的方式将专利的引文统计与从法律决定中获得的关于许可的证据结合起来。如果这种方法成功，调查人员将开始填补有关技术许可信息的明显空白。***

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. ***