This webinar aims to introduce participants to the advantages of using USPTO patent data for research on collaboration networks in cities and regions of developing countries, especially in Latin America. In such regions, the scarcity of sub-nationally comparable data and the absence of a regional office that centralizes patents from different countries make the use of USPTO data particularly interesting. The webinar will present the main features of this data source, the advantages of accessing it through the PatentsView platform and some examples of research articles using this data.

The webinar will serve as an introduction to the workshop to be held the following week. In this workshop, participants will be able to learn more in depth about the applications and methods that use this data and will practice how to use R for processing and analysis of collaboration networks.