DISCERN: Duke Innovation & SCientific Enterprises Research Network

location: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3594642

tags: Compustat, Patents, Publications, NPL, Name changes, Dynamic reassignment, GVKEY, Disambiguation

description: Patents (as well as scientific articles, and NPL citations at the aggregate firm-level) matched to U.S. Compustat firms over the period 1980-2015. In extending the match to Compustat up to 2015, we address two major challenges: name changes and ownership changes. Our UO and subsidiary historical standardized firm name lists, including the dynamic reassignment, are publicly available for researches to match to their database of interest.

documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3594642

last edit: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 10:30:08 GMT

timeframe: 1980-2015