However, these datasets only provide detailed geographical information on patents granted since 1975, the year when the USPTO began to record patents electronically. The main objective of this paper is to present HistPat, a well-structured, ready-to-use, comprehensive, and geo-referenced dataset of...
This growth has come about from a variety of reasons, but a key driver has been the Geospatial Semester program. In the rest of this paper, we introduce the Geospatial Semester, share details about its implementation, and discuss the research we have done regarding its impact on students’ sp...