Paris Reloaded

This is about Name Game workshop held in Paris last 25, 26 november.

The workshop has been organized by my roommate Francesco Lissoni in the frame of APE-INV whose goals are measuring the extent of academic patenting, and studying its determinants, in order to improve our understanding of university–industry relationships, and of their influence on academic researchers’ choice of scientific targets and norms of conduct.
So an important issue is building a database about inventors, and the first step consists in cleaning and standardizing the information on inventors we can derive from patent data.
The Name Game workshop aimed at convening as many researchers as possible with experience in this field, in order to allow them to share their methodologies and possibly reach a consensus on how to harmonize their future efforts.
It has been hosted by OST, the Observatoire des sciences et des techniques.

There eventually I had the chance of making a demi-decent presentation of the job done about EPO inventors in the last few years. If you want you can find it here