Zusammenführung der Internationalen Patentklassifikation -IPC- und der Standard International Trade Classification -SITC-. Studienarbeit

For some years the development and use of indicators measuring national competitiveness and technological performance have increasingly stepped up in importance to monitor and predict national economic development in an international environment. The different types of indicators are either relying on trade statistics - in the case of competitiveness indicators - or on patent statistics - in the case of technological indicators. Thus far, it has been impossible to compare both types of indicators due to different types of classification schemes for trade and patent statistics. Therefore, the aim of this work is on matching the highly diverse classification entities of the two most commonly used classifications - the International Patent Classification (IPC) and the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). Thereby, the process of matching different categories takes advantage of an already existing concordance list of the USPTO.