The Use of Science for Inventions and its Identification: Patent level evidence matched with survey

Published: Aug 1, 2015
Abstract
While backward citation information disclosed in patent documents is often used for tracing the scientific sources of innovations, it is still poorly understood how well the backward citations trace the actual knowledge flow from science. This paper directly evaluates both the completeness and the noise of the inventor citation information, linking the results of an original inventor survey on scientific sources to the dataset of non-patent...
Paper Details
Title
The Use of Science for Inventions and its Identification: Patent level evidence matched with survey
Published Date
Aug 1, 2015
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