The Age of Invention: Matching Inventor Ages to Patents Based on Web-scraped Sources /
Kaltenberg, Mary.
The Age of Invention: Matching Inventor Ages to Patents Based on Web-scraped Sources / Mary Kaltenberg, Adam B. Jaffe, Margie Lachman. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w28768 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28768. .
May 2021.
This paper overviews the data collection procedures and resulting data for inventor ages and associated death dates. We use information about inventors from patents (name and location) and search for age and date of death information from publicly available online web directories and build a scoring system to indicate the quality of information that we collect. After applying a variety of heuristics and robustness checks, we are confident of 1,508,676 inventor ages associated with patents granted between 1976 and 2018. We also find the death dates of 206,589 inventors, though we are not as confident of the accuracy of the death information. The datasets and associated replication files are freely available at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YRLSKU
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The Age of Invention: Matching Inventor Ages to Patents Based on Web-scraped Sources / Mary Kaltenberg, Adam B. Jaffe, Margie Lachman. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w28768 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28768. .
May 2021.
This paper overviews the data collection procedures and resulting data for inventor ages and associated death dates. We use information about inventors from patents (name and location) and search for age and date of death information from publicly available online web directories and build a scoring system to indicate the quality of information that we collect. After applying a variety of heuristics and robustness checks, we are confident of 1,508,676 inventor ages associated with patents granted between 1976 and 2018. We also find the death dates of 206,589 inventors, though we are not as confident of the accuracy of the death information. The datasets and associated replication files are freely available at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YRLSKU
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.