Resources COMETS Codebook December 15, 2019 Share: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Related COMETSCOMETS Cooperating ScholarsCOMETS Data FilesCOMETS FAQsCOMETS Reference Guidelines A detailed account of the methodologies used and choices made in building COMETS is found in Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby and Jason Fong, “Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank,” Annals of Economics and Statistics (Annales d’Economie et Statistique), Issue 115/116, December 2014, preprint at National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 17404, revised March 2014. Excel file available here. In complement to this basic source, the codebook contains names and descriptions of the fields in the COMETS data set. The codebook is organized in three main sections, ordered as follows: Section 1: Patents Section 2: Grants (NSF and NIH) Section 3: Universities Definitions of codes used in the data can be found in additional tabs in this document. The link in the “Reference Sheet” column of the codebook will go to the tab containing information for that particular field. <>patents SECTION 1 : PatentspatentsPatent number, application and grant datespatent_citationsPatent numbers and grant years of citing and cited patentspatent_cite_countsNumber of citations by yearpatent_int_classesInternational patent classespatent_us_classesUS patent classespatent_abstractsPatent title and abstractpatent_assigneesPatent assignee names and addressespatent_inventorsPatent inventor names and addressespatent_zd_catsZucker-Darby Science and Technology Area classifications for patentspatent_nanoNanotechnology-related flags for patents through grant year 2005 SECTION 2 : Grants grantsGeneral grant informationgrantee_orgsReceiving organization names and addressesgrant_pisPrinciple Investigator informationgrant_co_pisCo-Investigator informationgrant_abstractsGrant title and abstractgrant_zd_catsZucker-Darby Science and Technology Area classifications for grantsgrant_nanoNanotechnology-related flags for grants through 2006 grant_nsfInformation specific to NSF grantsgrant_nsf_programsNSF programs associated with a grantgrant_nsf_fieldsNSF fields associated with a grant grant_nihInformation specific to NIH grantsgrant_nih_tagsDescriptive tags assigned to NIH grantsgrant_nih_core_proj_numsCore project numbers for NIH grants SECTION 3 : Universities univ_org_infoIPEDS unitid, ZD org_id, BEA_2005univ_institutional_infoIPEDS address informationuniv_enrollmentsUndergraduate and graduate enrollmentsuniv_degreesDegrees awarded by Zucker-Darby Science and Technology Area classificationsuniv_systemsUniversity systems tableuniv_faculty_extendedFaculty data by gender, contract length, and roleuniv_system_patents*Patents for university systemsuniv_student_demographicsStudent breakdowns by race and gender Next Resources COMETS December 15, 2019 Resources Kauffman Firm Survey December 15, 2019 Resources Kauffman Dissertation Fellows December 15, 2019