INNOS&T

Title
Innovative S&T indicators combining patent data and surveys: Empirical models and policy analyses

Project Acronym: INNOS&T

Project Number: 217299

Coordinator

Prof. Alfonso Gambardella - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Keywords

Science, technology, patents, inventors

Duration: The duration of the project shall be 36 months from 1^st April 2008.

The goals of the research project are:

to develop and collect novel and systematic science and technology indicators
to produce empirical models that can contribute to improve policies on the following topics: the economic use of the patents (unused patents and strategic patenting; licensing, entrepreneurship); science-industry linkages and innovation performance; gender, education and mobility of inventors; the economic value of patents

Researchers involved in the Project

Partners

Bocconi University, Milan (Alfonso Gambardella, project coordinator)

Ludwig Maximiliams Universitat, Munich (unit responsible: Dietmar Harhoff)

K.U. Leuven (unit responsible: Bart Van Looy)

IESE Business School, Barcelona (unit responsible: Bruno Cassiman)