Characteristics of the "Corporate Invention Board" (CIB) and "Nano" patent databases and exploration of their potential use in S&T studies

The objective of the course is to introduce patents databases. It will describe the features of the CIB and Nano patent databases, highlighting their potential applications in S&T studies and provide a practical training for their exploitation.

It focuses on 2 databases:

• A database of the patent portfolio of more than 2000 worldwide MNEs with the highest R&D investments (CIB),
• A thematic database gathering the worldwide patenting activity in the field of nanotechnologies

The patent concepts, definitions, patent systems, patent indicators will be introduced as well as their potential use in S&T studies.

The general existing patent database facilities (Espacenet, Patstat) will be presented and the specificities and uses of the CIB and Nano (building methods, enrichments, coverage, applications) will be detailed. .

The participants will be trained to search into patent DBs in order to retrieve information and answer basic research questions. The training sessions will be oriented towards the analyses of technology field dynamics as well as the identification of institutional participations in the inventive activity.