Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949–1990
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2022-11-08
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Hipp, Ann
Fritsch, Michael
Greve, Maria
Günther, Jutta
Lange, Marcel
Liutik, Christian
Pfeifer, Beate
Shkolnykova, Mariia
Wyrwich, Michael
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Abstract
We document the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949–1990), which is freely available at GESIS https://doi.org/10.7802/2448. The database contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by the Office of Inventions and Patents (later: German Patent and Trade Mark Office/DPMA). The core database covers the years 1950–1990 and contains 24 variables with manually cleaned and processed information on a total of 261,822 unique patents of the GDR.
Keywords
German Democratic Republic (GDR), invention, patent data, Economics and Econometrics, General Business,Management and Accounting, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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Hipp, A, Fritsch, M, Greve, M, Günther, J, Lange, M, Liutik, C, Pfeifer, B, Shkolnykova, M & Wyrwich, M 2022, 'Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949–1990', Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik, vol. 244, no. 1-2, pp. 149-158. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2022-0058