Comprehensive Patent Data of the German Democratic Republic 1949–1990

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ID22122998
AuthorsAnn Hipp (0000-0003-2526-5980, University of Bremen , Bremen , Germany), Michael Fritsch (0000-0003-0337-4182, Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena , Germany, corresponding author), Maria Greve (0000-0001-5855-9753, Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands ; and Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena , Germany), Jutta Günther (University of Bremen , Bremen , Germany), Marcel Lange (0000-0002-6629-9960, University of Bremen , Bremen , Germany), Christian Liutik (Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena , Germany), Beate Pfeifer (Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena , Germany), Mariia Shkolnykova (0000-0002-7186-619X, University of Bremen , Bremen , Germany), Michael Wyrwich (0000-0001-7746-694X, University of Groningen , Groningen , the Netherlands)
Year2024
Volume244
Issue1-2
Pages149-158
Publication date2024-02-26
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2366-049X • E-ISSN: 0021-4027
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jbnst-2022-0058
OpenAlexW4308542729
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

We document the generation and the content of the Comprehensive Patent Database (CPDB) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (1949–1990), which is freely available at GESIS https://doi.org/10.7802/2448 . The database contains all patents granted in the GDR and published by the Office of Inventions and Patents (later: German Patent and Trade Mark Office/DPMA). The core database covers the years 1950–1990 and contains 24 variables with manually cleaned and processed information on a total of 261,822 unique patents of the GDR

Database · Democracy · Economic history · European patent office · German · Political science · Computer Science · European history and politics · History · Law

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