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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Mohammad Ahmadpoor, Kellogg School of Management "The Dual Frontier: Patentable Inventions and Prior Scientific Advance"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
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Lower Level Chambers Hall
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The Dual Frontier: Patentable Inventions and Prior Scientific Advance
Speaker:
Mohammad Ahmadpoor - Postdoctoral Fellow, Strategy Department, Kellogg School of Management
Talk Abstract:
Mohammad Ahmadpoor 1 Benjamin F. Jones 1,2
1. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
2. National Bureau of Economic Research
We build a new knowledge map, linking 4.8 million U.S. patents to 32 million research articles in the Web of Science, to determine the minimum citation distance between patentable inventions and prior scientific advances. The distance metric provides a new typology of impact to characterize fields, funders, institutions, and individuals. The metric can also inform long-standing ideas about the nature of scientific and technological progress. We find that the integrated citation network encompasses the majority of both patents and papers. Yet the linkages are typically indirect, peaking 3 degrees (papers) and 2 degrees (patents) from the patent-paper boundary, and fields vary enormously. The findings of majority connectivity, indirect connectivity, and the prevalence of university-to-firm linkages across the paper-patent boundary are consistent with some core conceptions of the “linear model– of science. However, consistent with more recent theories of scientific and technological progress, the same individual often bridges the patent-paper boundary, and advances along the patent-paper boundary appear strikingly more impactful within their respective domains.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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