Disambiguation and Co-authorship Networks of the U.S. Patent Inventor Database
location: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/5F1RRI
contributors: Ronald Lai, Alexander D'Amour, Amy Yu, Ye Sun, Lee Fleming
tags: coauthor network, disambiguation, United States
code: https://github.com/funginstitute/downloads
timeframe: 1970-2010
terms of_use: CC0 - "Public Domain Dedication"
description: Name disambiguation of US inventors, 1975-2010. Using a Bayesian supervised learning approach, we identify individual inventors from the U.S. utility patent database, from 1975 to the present. An interface to calculate and illustrate patent co-authorship networks and social network measures is also provided. The network representation does not require bounding the social network beforehand. We provide descriptive statistics of individual and collaborative variables and illustrate examples of networks for an individual, an organization, a technology, and a region. The paper provides an overview of the technical algorithms and pointers to the data, code, and documentation, with the hope of further open development by the research community.
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