Source: YB
YB 2009/2010 changes:
- YB 2009 inserted (UT, April 2009)
- update and expansion by unit (
- language and style editing (ESN, Nov 2009)
- split into two articles (MD, June 2010):
- Statistical article 'Patent statistics' with data analysis,
- YB article, and Background article 'Patent statistics backgrounds' with context and methodological information, but no data analysis
- YB 2010 insertion (LM, June 2010)
Comments by INFORMA 14.12.2010
First sentence of the main findings: we can not see why the period 2000 to 2003 was taken – except to extend the analysis by one year. By extending to 2003 it gives the impression that this was a period of slow growth, whereas in fact there were 2 years of falls compensated by one year of faster growth. We have changed the dates to 2000 to 2002 and split the analysis of the period into three parts: growth, decline, growth.