The 2018 IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM) conference took place in Alicante, Spain, co-organised by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The IPSDM conference discussed how intellectual property data, statistics and analysis can be used to inform decision-makers in both the public and private sectors, and to identify key information needs and possible shortcomings. The 2018 edition called for IP data and empirical evidence related to:

• IP and the digital transformation: the role of IP for Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Blockchains and Fintech.
• IP bundles and the knowledge economy: which challenges? Which opportunities?
• IPR, standards and standard setting mechanisms.
• Trademarks and designs: the role of IP for branding and for service and creative industries.
• International IP systems and IP in the EU single market.
• IP valuation methods and the market for IP rights.
• Science-industry links, university technology transfer and the role of IP.
• IPRs and SMEs: barrier to entry and growth or performance enablers?
• Violation of IP rights: counterfeiting, piracy and copyright infringement.
• Creative commons and open source: challenge or complement to the IPR system?
• IP Offices’ practices impact on the efficiency and outcomes of IP systems.

Location

The conference will take place at the premises of the European Union Intellectual Property Office:
Avenida de Europa, 4
E-03008 Alicante, Spain

> Further information on the EUIPO website

Registration

Registration is now open.
Please click here to register.

Researchers interested in the topics listed above or in any IP-relevant analytical and/or statistical issue are invited to submit an electronic version of their paper, or an extended abstract of at least three pages, to ipsdm@oecd.org. Please feel free to circulate this call for papers among your contacts and all those that may be interested in participating in the event.

Deadlines

• Submissions: 17 June 2018
• Notification of acceptance: 28 July 2018 
• Full papers due by 5 October 2018 
• Presentations due by 17 October 2018

> Further information about the call for papers (pdf)

• Carolina Castaldi
  Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)

• Christine Greenhalgh
  University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

• Bronwyn Hall
  University of California Berkeley (United States)

• Dietmar Harhoff
  Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany)

• Keun Lee
  Seoul National University (Korea)

• Mark Schankerman
  London School of Economics (United Kingdom)

• Rahul Telang
  Carnegie Mellon University (United States)

• Ruth Towse
  Bournemouth University (United Kingdom)

• Catherine Tucker
  MIT Sloan School of Management (United States)

For enquiries related to the conference please contact ipsdm@oecd.org.

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Event organised by

• European Union Intellectual Property Office
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

In co-operation with the OECD-led IP Statistics Task Force

APO ▪ CIPO ▪ EPO ▪ Eurostat ▪ ILPO ▪ IMPI ▪ INAPI ▪ INPI (FR) ▪ IP Australia ▪ IPO(UK)
IPONZ ▪ JPO ▪ KIPO ▪ NSF ▪ OBI ▪ UIBM ▪ USPTO ▪ WIPO

New ways to access and analyse big data make it possible to elicit information complementing traditional statistics and data sources and may represent a powerful addition to existing econometric toolboxes. The IPSDM 2018 conference will host its first “Big Data Analytics” challenge, aimed at finding novel ways of accessing, combining, analysing and visualising IP data.

Teams devising new ways to gather, link, analyse and visualise available IP rights datasets and/or proposing new big-data-based methods and algorithms aimed to collect and explore linked IP and innovation-relevant data are invited to:

• notify the OECD and the EUIPO (by sending a message to ipsdm@oecd.org) of their intention to participate with a 200 word max description of what they intend to do by Sunday 24 June;
• provide information on the preliminary developments by Sunday 15 July (data source, methodology, outcomes);
• submit their internet-based tools (portals, webs, apps, etc) to ipsdm@oecd.org by Sunday 29 July (midnight CEST); including accompanying material highlighting the key data, functionalities and features of the proposed tool.

Intermediate results will be shared among participants at different points in time.

The focus of the 2018 IPSDM Big Data Analytics challenge is:

• Analysing the emergence of new technologies, notably using data mining techniques (e.g. AI-related technologies and applications, the convergence of digital technologies with others);
• Obtaining new insights from combining diverse datasets with IPR repositories (e.g. the data matching exercises carried out by EUIPO for its IP contribution studies,  the EPO PATSTAT database and/or identification of climate change mitigation technologies, the JRC-OECD COR&DIP database, the USPTO’s cancer moonshot patent dataset, or any other relevant dataset) or from new sources of data on innovation activity (e.g. scientific publications).

More generally, innovative ways to access, combine, analyse and visualise IP and innovation-related data will also be considered, especially if related to the digital transformation.

The top 3 teams or individuals will:

• be invited to participate in the IPSDM conference, with their travel and accommodation sponsored by the organisers;
• present their results to the OECD IP Taskforce and at the event;
• have a link to their tool included on the conference and organisers' websites.

Please contact ipsdm@oecd.org with any questions.