Exploring paper characteristics that facilitate the knowledge flow from science to technology

Ding, Cherng G.; Hung, Wen Chi; Lee, Meng Che; Wang, Hung Jui

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2016.12.004

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“…Moreover, we emphasize citation growth over time rather than simple citation counts at a particular time point, allowing us to explore the dynamics of the utilization of scientific research for technology development. The only study that is similar to our work is the one by Ding et al (2017). However, we not only look at the entire citation history of papers as opposed to two five-year time windows considered by them, but also make a comparison of citations received from patents and from papers.…”

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Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research

2018

Journal of Informetrics

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Traditionally, the number of citations that a scholarly paper receives from other papers is used as the proxy of its scientific impact. Yet citations can come from domains outside the scientific community, and one such example is through patented technologies-paper can be cited by patents, achieving technological impact. While the scientific impact of papers has been extensively studied, the technological aspect remains less known in the literature. Here we aim to fill this gap by presenting a comparative study on how 919 thousand biomedical papers are cited by U.S. patents and by other papers over time. We observe a positive correlation between citations from patents and from papers, but there is little overlap between the two domains in either the most cited papers, or papers with the most delayed recognition. We also find that the two types of citations exhibit distinct temporal variations, with patent citations lagging behind paper citations for a median of 6 years for the majority of papers. Our work contributes to the understanding of the technological impact of papers.

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confidence: 94%

Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research

2018

Journal of Informetrics

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“…Besides, the references between scientific literature and patents were called "these citations reflect genuine links between science and technology" [1]. And they were used to measure characteristics of published papers facilitating the knowledge flow from science to technology [14]. Citations from patents to scientific publications could provide useful evidence about the commercial impacts of the academic research [15].…”

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Revealing Structural Patterns of Patent Citation by a Two-Boundary Network Model Based on USPTO Data

Chi

Song

2020

IEEE Access

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The patent is one of the carriers of scientific research and development, and an indicator of technical innovation. As a promising approach for modeling complex systems, complex networks could provide the sound theoretical framework for developing proper simulation models. Many researchers use the relations of patent citations and transfers to study knowledge propagate and output in the network. However, knowledge flow in patents should be fully considered by substantial and fruitful connections, both in the process of knowledge application and knowledge output. In this paper, we present a two-boundary network model with knowledge application boundary and knowledge output boundary to reveal the patent citation patterns in knowledge flow. The feasibility and effectiveness of the two-boundary network model are proved with theory and experiment. Utilizing 578,678 patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office between 2015 and 2018 with the two-boundary network model, we put up a fixed effect ordinary least square equation to reveal the patent impacts of different structural patterns. Experimental results show that, in the perspective of structural patterns, the highly impacted patents without assigning are greatly influenced by their scientific literature references and provide knowledge for other assigned patents. However, considering all the fixed effect factors, patents that transfer knowledge from other patents to assigned patents are more likely to become highly impacted patents. Besides, we find the two-boundary network model fits the real patent knowledge flow well by comparing it with the other models. INDEX TERMS Two-boundary network model, knowledge flow, regression equation, fixed effect.

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“…One of the most studied areas is knowledge flow from science to technology, as it appears through the patent-to-paper citation data. Such connections are interesting because they arise from collaboration between pure sciences and technological industry, on the one hand related to knowledge transfer in practical problem solving and on the other, also closely related to innovation and the commercial success of nations [90][91][92][93]. It has been claimed that rapid advancements in information technologies facilitate knowledge diffusion and transfer, and thus effectively diminish the effect of geographic barriers [94].…”

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Nature of Science (NOS) Being Acquainted with Science of Science (SoS): Providing a Panoramic Picture of Sciences to Embody NOS for Pre-Service Teachers

Koponen

2021

Education Sciences

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Understanding about nature of science is important topic in science education as well as in pre-service science teacher education. In science education, Nature of Science (NOS), in its different forms of educational scaffoldings, seeks to provide with students an understanding of features of scientific knowledge and science in general, how scientific knowledge changes and becomes accepted, and what factors guide scientific activities. For a science teacher, deep and broad enough picture of sciences is therefore of importance. This study attempts to show that the research field called Science of Science (SoS) can significantly support building such a panoramic picture of sciences, and through that, significantly support NOS. The SoS approaches the structure and dynamics of science quantitatively, using scientific documents (e.g., publications, reports, books and monographs and patent applications) as trails to map the landscape of sciences. It is argued here that SoS may provide material and interesting cases for NOS, and in so doing enrich NOS in a similarly significant way as history, philosophy and sociology of science (HPSS) scholarship has done thus far. This study introduces several themes based on SoS that are of relevance for NOS as they were introduced and discussed in a pre-service science teachers’ course. The feedback from pre-service teachers shows that introducing SoS, with minimal additional philosophical interpretations and discussions, but simply as evidential facts and findings, sparks ideas and views that come very close to NOS themes and topics. Discussions related to nature of science, and specific educational NOS scaffoldings for it, can find a good companion in SoS; the latter providing facts and evidence of thee structure and dynamics of sciences, the former providing perspectives for interpretations.

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Exploring paper characteristics that facilitate the knowledge flow from science to technology

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research

Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research

Revealing Structural Patterns of Patent Citation by a Two-Boundary Network Model Based on USPTO Data

Nature of Science (NOS) Being Acquainted with Science of Science (SoS): Providing a Panoramic Picture of Sciences to Embody NOS for Pre-Service Teachers

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