Figures - Product and process patents by inventor countries

Plots of product, process, and mixed patents by inventor countries. The file names can be read and understood in the following way: "product_process_patents_abstr_us_Netherlands" -> displayed are shares of product, process-use, and mixed patents based on the classification of abstracts of USPTO patent filings of inventors located in the Netherlands product_process_use_patents_2_ind_100_ep_Japan" -> displayed are shares of product, process, use, and mixed patents based on the classification of the first 2 keywords of independent claim texts of EPO patent filings of inventors located in Japan". A detailed data description can be found in the study on the EPO's homepage (title of the study: "Knowledge spillovers from product and process inventions and their impact on firm performance"): https://www.epo.org/learning-events/materials/academic-research-programme/research-project-grants.html . Funding by the "European Office Academic Research Programme" is gratefully ackknowledged.