Replication Data for: Regional Innovator Networks - A Review and an Application with R

This is a subset of the OECD REGPAT database (February 2016) and the HAN database (September 2016). The complete data can be downloaded from http://www.oecd.org/sti/intellectual-property-statistics-and-analysis.htm#ipdata. This subset is used as an example for the analysis of regional innovator networks and covers selected tables on EPO applications with at least one inventor located in four German regions (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart). The dataset also includes the R code for replication, OECD documentation files, and four text files used for (rough) cleaning of inventor names.