This workshop will focus on the types and availability of intellectual property (IP) data, and investigate the novel ways these data are being used at the frontier of research to investigate relationships between institutions and innovation, particularly in the context of technology start-ups.
Reliable and "clean" IP data are increasingly available from governmental and non-governmental sources. While many of these datasets are comprised exclusively of patent data (Hall et al. 2001), and a significant portion of our introductory discussion will focus on patents, we will also discuss the availability and uses of other types of data such as trademark and copyright. The workshop will also focus on some uses of these data in research studying the relationship between institutional structures and technological innovation.  We will examine in detail a study of the use by firms of IP in the standard-setting context (Simcoe, Graham, and Feldman, 2007), and an ongoing effort by the Berkeley Law School to survey technology entrepreneurs regarding their use of the patent system.