"The British Patent System and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1852 presents a fundamental reassessment of the … absence of legislative reform, the British patent system was continually evolving and responding to the needs of an … industrialising economy. Inventors were able to obtain and enforce patent rights with relative ease. This placed Britain in an …

patent data in the context of S&T measurement, and recommendations for the compilation and interpretation of patent … indicators in this context. It aims to show what patent statistics can and cannot be used for, and how to count patents in order … to maximize information on S&T activities while minimizing statistical noise and biases. Finally, it describes how patent …