Since 2016 autumn TLS206 has been enriched with
NUTS codes for both applicants and inventors.
Source database has been made available by ECOOM (K.U. LEUVEN), and it contains two fields: NUTS field: 5 ASCII characters or empty 5 characters, and NUTS_LEVEL where f.i. = 3: indicates
a NUTS 3 level, Example: "DE211" for Ingolstadt; empty: no region has
been allocated.
The regionalisation procedure is performed on all person addresses of EP patents available in the PATSTAT 2016 Spring Edition, and adopts the new NUTS 2013 codes for 33 countries (EU28 plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey).
See table TLS904_NUTS for details about the NUTS codes.
PATSTAT documents do not give an idea of the coverage so I add below a table I calculated for the coverage of nutsification for the 33 countries, across all application authorites in PATSTAT.
|
# persons in EU33
|
nuts %
|
EC
|
2
|
100,00%
|
EE
|
19623
|
0,00%
|
EG
|
3754
|
6,42%
|
EP
|
6527012
|
73,11%
|
ES
|
1058477
|
0,43%
|
FI
|
486171
|
0,44%
|
FR
|
1631170
|
0,29%
|
GA
|
1
|
0,00%
|
GB
|
1028051
|
0,68%
|
GC
|
285
|
0,00%
|
GE
|
952
|
0,32%
|
GR
|
60309
|
1,77%
|
GT
|
2772
|
0,00%
|
HK
|
53649
|
1,68%
|
HN
|
2435
|
0,16%
|
HR
|
49306
|
0,29%
|
HU
|
160780
|
0,33%
|
IB
|
270418
|
7,78%
|
ID
|
20450
|
1,26%
|
IE
|
52940
|
2,14%
|
IL
|
46955
|
4,42%
|
IN
|
38396
|
1,45%
|
IS
|
15805
|
0,08%
|
IT
|
542505
|
0,50%
|
JO
|
4199
|
0,26%
|
JP
|
36991
|
0,55%
|
KE
|
1520
|
5,26%
|
KR
|
550299
|
1,67%
|
KZ
|
7
|
0,00%
|
LT
|
12772
|
0,38%
|
LU
|
24806
|
0,38%
|
LV
|
17773
|
0,39%
|
MA
|
10668
|
1,42%
|
MC
|
2213
|
0,54%
|
MD
|
2487
|
0,04%
|
ME
|
1754
|
0,06%
|
MN
|
34
|
0,00%
|
MT
|
304
|
2,63%
|
MW
|
147
|
0,68%
|
MX
|
169803
|
0,95%
|
MY
|
46413
|
0,77%
|
NI
|
311
|
0,32%
|
NL
|
158776
|
0,12%
|
NO
|
317280
|
0,49%
|
NZ
|
5286
|
0,38%
|
OA
|
7175
|
0,95%
|
PA
|
805
|
0,37%
|
PE
|
37871
|
0,29%
|
PH
|
16192
|
1,02%
|
PL
|
154083
|
0,63%
|
PT
|
220448
|
1,03%
|
RO
|
167006
|
0,04%
|
RS
|
11655
|
0,06%
|
RU
|
237865
|
0,06%
|
SE
|
397630
|
0,34%
|
SG
|
63644
|
0,16%
|
SI
|
98298
|
0,28%
|
SK
|
74705
|
0,59%
|
SM
|
4115
|
0,05%
|
SU
|
55209
|
0,47%
|
SV
|
3196
|
0,06%
|
TH
|
28
|
0,00%
|
TJ
|
172
|
0,00%
|
TN
|
12526
|
0,01%
|
TR
|
115201
|
0,70%
|
TT
|
14
|
0,00%
|
TW
|
297992
|
2,52%
|
UA
|
35781
|
0,44%
|
US
|
4872625
|
0,15%
|
UY
|
27645
|
0,12%
|
VN
|
128
|
1,56%
|
YU
|
57437
|
0,51%
|
ZA
|
27946
|
0,79%
|
ZM
|
473
|
0,21%
|
ZW
|
1062
|
2,64%
|
