The 3PFL database links information on patented inventions and scientific publications related to a public procurement contract or a research grant awarded by the U.S. Federal Government to detailed contract-level/grant-level information (e.g., awarding agency, recipient organization, award size).
We have combined data from multiple sources, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office bulk database, the Federal Procurement Database System, the Award Submission Portal (ASP), the European Patent Office's PATSTAT database, and the Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science database.
The 3PFL database provides rich and original information that opens the door to novel empirical research in the economics of innovation and science.
The Chair of Innovation and IP Policy at EPFL is the main provider of funds for this project. Dr. Raiteri gratefully acknowledges financial support from the "EPFL Fellows co-funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie" program for the project "Innovative Public Procurement as Innovation Policy" (Action: H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2015, Grant Agreement Number: 665667).
An article is in preparation and will be available in Q1 2018.
The first version of the database is ready and will be made publicly available upon acceptance of the paper.
The 3PFL project and some of our papers exploiting the data were presented at various workshops and conferences including:
MSI Seminar Series
October 19th 2017, KU Leuven, Belgium.
The 12th Annual conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP)
September 4-6 2017, University of Bordeaux, France.
Barcelona GSE Summer Forum 2017 on Economics of Science and Innovation
June 15-16 2017, Barcelona GSE, Spain.
The 7th ZEW/MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting,
May 16th 2017, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim, Germany.
The 4th VPDE-BRICK Workshop in Economics of Innovation, Complexity, and Knowledge,
December 16th 2016, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Italy.
The 11th Annual conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP),
September 3-5 2016, Pembroke College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
We welcome any comments on the article and the data.
Please send us an email to hello@3pfl.io.