The nearly universal link between the age of past knowledge and tomorrow’s breakthroughs in science and technology: The hotspot
Abstract
Scientists and inventors can draw on an ever-expanding literature for the building blocks of tomorrow's ideas, yet little is known about how combinations of past work are related to future discoveries. Our analysis parameterizes the age distribution of a work's references and revealed three links between the age of prior knowledge and hit papers and patents. First, works that cite literature with a low mean age and high age variance are in a...
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Title
The nearly universal link between the age of past knowledge and tomorrow’s breakthroughs in science and technology: The hotspot
Published Date
Apr 7, 2017
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Volume
3
Issue
4
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