Workshop: Informing the use of Patents to Study Invention and Innovation

SciSIP计划支持旨在推进科学和创新政策的科学基础的研究，在其存在的七年中，已经支持了许多利用专利数据作为主要经验探索的研究。复杂的模型、新方法和不断提高的计算能力已被用于审查专利活动，因此我们学到了很多东西。但随着专利法的变化和企业专利实践的演变，许多人开始质疑专利作为发明替代措施的潜在效用。研讨会汇集了领先的学术研究人员，专利法律的学者以及来自政府机构和使用专利的企业的代表。 研究结果对我国R D政策的制定和R D资源的配置具有一定的参考价值。 讲习班的目标是确定使用专利数据有用和适当的研究主题;讨论专利是经验分析适当来源的新研究领域;就使用专利数据的挑战和限制达成共识（特别是近年来专利法的实施改变了专利的追求方式，作者）;最后，提供有关专利数据的各种利益相关者可以努力解决和/或克服这些限制和挑战的方法。

Over its seven years of existence, the SciSIP Program, which supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy, has supported many studies which have utilized data on patents as their principal empirical probe. Sophisticated models, new methods and increasing computational power have been brought to bear to the examination of patenting activity, and as a consequence much has been learned. But over this time many have come to question the underlying utility of patents as a proxy measure for invention in light of changes to patent law and the evolution of patenting practice by firms. The workshop brings together leading academic researchers, patent legal scholars as well as representatives from the governmental agencies and businesses which use patents. The results will help in formulating R&D policy and allocating R&D resources. The goals of the workshop are to identify research themes in which the use of patent data has been useful and appropriate; to discuss new research domains for which patents are an appropriate source of empirical analysis; develop an agreed understanding of the challenges and limitations in using patent data (particularly those limitations which may have been borne in recent years as the practice of patent law has changed the manner in which patents are pursued and ultimately authored); and lastly to offer ways in which various stakeholders regarding patent data can work to address and/or overcome these limitations and challenges.