Development of a concordance between technology and industrial classifications

Objective

The proposed work aims at developing a concordance between technology classifications and industrial sectors by linking Isle sectors, revision 3, to IPC subclass codes. For this purpose, an intellectual association of sector and technology codes will establish an ideal concordance. Then, an empirical concordance will be determined by relating the ISIC codes of about 3000 major applicants at the European Patent Offices and the IPC codes of their applications. In a last step, the validity of the concordance will be verified by checking the correlation of patent and foreign trade statistics. For EU member countries, Candidate countries, Japan and the United States, recent patent data will be computed broken down by industrial sectors.

Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Address

Breslauer Strasse 48
76139 Karlsruhe
Germany

Participants (2)

OBSERVATOIRE DES SCIENCES ET DES TECHNIQUES

France

Address

Rue De Vaugirard, 93
75006 Paris

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UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

United Kingdom

Address

Mantell Building
BN1 9RF Falmer - Brighton

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