Publications
See below for a comprehensive selection of our publications on patents and standards.
Technology standards are the silent powerhouses behind today’s digital economy. A new dataset shows the deepening links between patents and standards. The EPO now has over 5.5 million documents from standards development organisations in its databases.
This study aims to guide policymakers, industry and the broader public by providing a comprehensive inventory and analysis of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe and the US that have been developing and patenting 4IR technology over the past decade.
The inventions behind automated driving. This study provides a comprehensive picture of current trends and emerging leaders in self-driving vehicle technologies.
This study explains the trends in a variety of digital technologies like faster wireless internet, smart sensors, “big data” and artificial intelligence.
This report fills the literature gap and shed light on the potential relevance of the link between publicly-funded research and technical standards.
This report introduces a novel automated procedure that calculates the semantic similarity between patents and technical standards.