An analysis of relation between resident and non-resident patents and gross domestic product: Studying 20 countries

Recently, regarding to the occurrence of global challenges including economic recession, continental changes and public consequences, human’s creativity and inventions(Patent) are essential to find out sufficient solutions in future. Also, country of origin is used to categorize Intellectual Property(IP) data by resident(domestic) and non-resident(foreign) patent. In addition, Gross Domestic Product(GDP) is an important subject in macroeconomic, which refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced and is correlated with criteria and standards of life. Therefore, according to importance of subjects as resident and non-resident patents and GDP, this paper tries to rationalize and analyze the trend between them through regression method to find out the effect of each type of patent on GDP. In Fact, this method is applied and analyzed for 20 countries around the world(the data from the years 1980-2007) as case studies and all countries are classified into 3 classifications as Developed, Mid-Developed and Developing Countries based on the relation between resident and non-resident patents and GDP. At the end, the findings show USA and Japan are developed countries based on each relation. KeywordsResident Patent; Non-Resident Patent; Gross Domestic Product; Regression Method