2005/13 | LEM Working Paper Series | |
Scientific and Technological Regimes in Nanotechnology: Combinatorial Inventors and Performance |
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Andrea Bonaccorsi, Grid Thoma |
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Keywords | ||
Science-Technology Relation, Emerging Field, Nanotechnology, Patent Quality, Inventive
Productivity.
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Abstract | ||
Academics and policy makers are questioning about the relation between science and technology in the emerging
field of nano science and technology (NST) and the effectiveness of different
institutional regimes. We analyze the performance of inventors in the NST using
multiple indicators. We clustered patents in three groups according to the
scientific curricula of the inventors. The first two groups are composed by
patents whose inventors respectively are all authors of at least one scientific
publication in the NST and none of then has obtained a scientific publication
in that field. Thirdly, we isolated those patents that have at least one
inventor, who is also author of at least one scientific publication in the NST.
The underlining presumption of this classification is that of a proxy of
different institutional search regimes of the inventive activity; pure academic
research, pure industrial R&D, and academic-industrial research
partnerships.
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