Matched inventor ages from patents, based on web scraped sources
location: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/YRLSKU
contributors: Mary Kaltenberg, Adam Jaffe
tags: Inventors, Ages, Gender, Death Dates, Patents, United States
terms of_use: CC0 - "Public Domain Dedication"
description: We use information about U.S. residing inventors from patents which include 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 find 1,508,676 inventor ages. We also find the death dates of 206,589 inventors, though are not as confident in its accuracy.
last edit: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 03:01:46 GMT
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We use information about U.S. residing inventors from patents which include 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 find 1,508,676 inventor ages. We also find the death dates of 206,589 inventors, though are not as confident in its accuracy.