The Age of Invention: Matching Inventor Ages to Patents Based on Web-scraped Sources / Mary Kaltenberg, Adam B. Jaffe, Margie Lachman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaltenberg, Mary.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Jaffe, Adam B.

Lachman, Margie.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28768.

NBER working paper series no. w28768

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.

Summary:

This paper overviews the data collection procedures and resulting data for inventor ages and associated death dates. We use information about inventors from patents (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 are confident of 1,508,676 inventor ages associated with patents granted between 1976 and 2018. We also find the death dates of 206,589 inventors, though we are not as confident of the accuracy of the death information. The datasets and associated replication files are freely available at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YRLSKU

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Print version record

May 2021.