Product Market Competition, Technology and Productivity, 1996-2005

This study formed part of the pan-European Science and Technology Research In a Knowledge-based Economy (STRIKE) project. The UK research focused on the impact of changes in the extent of competition on innovation, technology transfer and productivity, and how these are affected by other institutional factors such as the extent of labour market flexibility and interaction in technology markets. <br> <br> The data collection for this project involved the matching of a number of microeconomic datasets and two datasets are available from the UK Data Archive as part of this study. The first dataset, the <i>European Industry Level Patents Database</i>, was created by matching microdata from the European Patent Office (EPO) PATSTAT database to Bureau van Dijk's ORBIS company accounts database. This allowed the researchers to assign an area of industry activity to the patenting information. The second dataset, the <i>European Import Quotas Database</i>, was created by using product-level microdata from the European Commission's Systeme Integre de Gestion de Licenses (SIGL) quota licensing website and aggregating this information to industry level. <br> <br> Further information is available on the <a href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-23-0901/read" title ="Product Market Competition, Technology and Productivity">Product Market Competition, Technology and Productivity</a> ESRC Award web page.<br>