Science and the diffusion of knowledge

被引：233

作者：

Sorenson, O

Fleming, L

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Anderson Grad Sch Management, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

[2] Harvard Univ, Sch Business, Boston, MA 02163 USA

来源：

RESEARCH POLICY | 2004年 / 33卷 / 10期

关键词：

research; publication; reference;

D O I：

10.1016/j.respol.2004.09.008

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

Scientists, social scientists and politicians frequently credit basic science with stimulating technological innovation, and with it economic growth. Despite a substantial body of research investigating this general relationship, relatively little empirical attention has been given to understanding the mechanisms that might generate this linkage. This paper considers whether more rapid diffusion of knowledge, brought about by the norm of publication, might account for part of this effect. We identify the importance of publication by comparing the patterns of citations from future patents to three groups of focal patents: (i) those that reference scientific (peer-reviewed) publications, (ii) those that reference commercial (non-scientific) publications; and (iii) those that reference neither. Our analyses strongly implicate publication as an important mechanism for accelerating the rate of technological innovation: Patents that reference published material, whether peer-reviewed or not, receive more citations, primarily because their influence diffuses faster in time and space. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：1615 / 1634

页数：20

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