Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333278 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Economics and Statistics [ISSN:] 2366-049X [Volume:] 244 [Issue:] 1/2 [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 149-158
Publisher: 
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
invention
patent data
JEL: 
O31
O33
P29
P39
B24
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Document Type: 
Article

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