Functional performance improvement data and patent sets for 30 technology domains with measurements of patent centrality and estimations of the improvement rate

This article accompanies the study presented in Triulzi et al. (2020) [1]. It briefly describes and makes available the data on functional performance for 30 technology domains, their patent sets, the measurement of patent centrality and the method to estimate the yearly technology performance improvement rate (TIR) that underly that study. Some of this data (performance time series and the lists of patents for 28 domains) has been collected by other authors for previous studies but were previously unavailable to the public. Measurements of patent centrality and other patent-based indicators for the 30 domains, and for 5.259.906 utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office between 1976 and 2015 are novel data contributed by Triulzi et al. (2020) [1]. Here we organize, describe and make available the collection of data in its entirety. This allows anyone interested to replicate the study or use the method to estimate the improvement rate of a given technology for which patents can be identified. For a detailed description of the data and methods see Triulzi et al. (2020) [1].