Analysts and policy makers have made increasing use of patent indicators to analyse the rate and direction of technological activity. The Patents Manual, issued in 1994, provides information on how patent data can be used as indicators, and also shows how these can be linked to other statistics...

This dataset contains data - in level and in percent - on PCT patent applications, co-patent applications, in green technologies, ICT, biotechnology, nanotechnology, within the region, country, or with foreign regions ; and percent domestic ownership of foreign patents and foreign ownership of...