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Nanoscience is an innovation intensive interdisciplinary field, where science and technology are closely related during development. Sweden represents an interesting setting to examine how they are related, because a high fraction of the total Swedish academic patents can be classified as Nanoscience. Combining bibliometric data from Web of Science, patent data from EPO and data from Swedish universities, this paper identifies all authors and all inventors listed on patents who work at universities, within nanotechnology in Sweden. The main question we address is if prominent academic scientists in terms of scientific publications are also the ones who become academic inventors. Publications are examined in terms of published articles and invention in terms of patents. The paper uses a novel semi-parametric technique, namely a conditional regression in a matched sample, in order to isolate the effect of publishing on patenting. The novelty of this paper is that it applies a conditional logistic regression in matches of academic pairs in order to isolate the relationship between patentingpublishing in nanoscience. The empirical results show that academics who both publish and patent have on average more publications as well as more citations. Furthermore, having a higher number of citations can increase the probability of having a patent. Thus, by isolating the effects of publishing on patenting, this paper contributes by demonstrating that scientific prominence, indicated both by number of articles and citations, positively impact the propensity to take patents.

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