Download The KEINS database on academic inventors contains detailed

The KEINS database on academic inventors contains detailed information on university
professors from France, Italy, and Sweden, who appear as designated inventors on one or
more patent application registered at the European Patent Office (EPO), 1978-2004.
Besides CESPRI, contributors to the database are: BETA (Universitè “Louis Pasteur”,
Strasbourg) and IMIT-Chalmers University (Gotheborg). Umea Universitet and Università
degli studi di Brescia have also contributed with data and by undertaking data-cleaning
tasks. Over time, the KEINS database will be extended to other countries, and this
webpage will be updated accordingly.
Produced for the EU-sponsored project on Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship:
Innovation, Networks and Systems, it is made available to all interested researchers in
different versions. The version downloadable from this webpage does not report the
academic inventors’ names and surnames, for privacy reasons. Researchers who may wish
to access such information are kindly requested to contact me in order to clarify the use
they will make of it. Other information which can be made available on request concern
the academic inventors’ colleagues and the overall (non-academic) patenting activity in
the academic inventors’ fields of expertise.
The KEINS database originates from the EP-INV database produced by CESPRI-Università
Bocconi, which contains all EPO applications, reclassified by applicant and inventor; and
from three lists of university professors of all ranks (from assistant to full professors), one
for each of the above mentioned countries (PROFLISTs). Academic inventors have been
identified by matching names+surnames of inventors in the EP-INV database with those in
the PROFLISTs, and by checking by e-mail and phone the identity of the matches, in order
to exclude homonyms.
Users of the KEINS database need to achieve some understanding of the complex
methodology followed to identify inventors in the EP-INV database, and of the subsequent
matching procedure; and if they wish to extend the geographical coverage of the database
beyond the three original countries, they may find it useful to employ the SQL, SAS, and
Access software tools that we developed over time. In order to do so, they may wish to
read the following:
Lissoni F., Sanditov B., Tarasconi G. (2006), “The Keins Database on Academic Inventors:
Methodology and Contents”, CESPRI working paper 181
The paper also contains the complete table of contents of the database, and ought to be
cited in the reference list of all papers based on KEINS data on academic inventors, or on
data collected with the KEINS methodology.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DATABASE (ACCESS VERSION, zipped)