Gatekeepers in knowledge transfer between science and technology: an exploratory study in the area of gene editing

Li, Xian; Zhao, Dangzhi; Hu, Xiaojun

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03537-y

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“…After disambiguating the authors and inventors, an automatic method can be used to match and identify the academic inventors by text content similarity (Cassiman et al, 2007) or string matching (Boyack & Klavans, 2008). Another common way is to compare the list of disambiguated authors and inventors in a semi-automatic way (Breschi & Catalini, 2010;Li et al, 2020;Lissoni, 2010;Wang & Guan, 2011). More specifically, after given and family names of each author and inventor are normalized, desktop research is conducted, including manually checking and leveraging extra information from other databases, the internet, or questionnaires.…”

Section: Academic Inventorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the literature, scientific publications and patents usually act as the respective proxies of scientific research and technical development (Dubaric et al, 2011;Xu et al, 2012Xu et al, , 2019Xu et al, , 2021c. To understand the knowledge association and interaction mechanism between science and technology, the following three perspectives have been exploited: (1) mutual citations between scholarly articles and patents (Glänzel & Meyer, 2003;Huang et al, 2015;Narin & Noma, 1985); (2) lexical-and topic-based linkages between these two resources (Bassecouolard & Zitt, 2004;Shibata et al, 2011;Xu et al, 2012Xu et al, , 2019Xu et al, , 2021c; and (3) academic inventors bridging science and technology (Guan & Wang, 2010;Li et al, 2020;Meyer, 2006;Noyons et al, 1994;Zhang et al, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the development of social network theories and methods, several studies have mapped researchers to the interconnection of nodes in the network by their coauthoring and coinventing behaviors. The node position importance (Balconi et al, 2004;Zamzami et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2019) and key role as gatekeepers (Breschi & Catalini, 2010;Li et al, 2020;Lissoni, 2010) of academic inventors in scientific and technological (S and T) networks have also been investigated. However, little is still unknown on the characteristics of academic inventors, especially their research interests, and the relation between their interests and their position in S&T networks.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Do academic inventors have diverse interests?

Hao

2023

Scientometrics

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Academic inventors bridge science and technology, and have attracted increasing attention. However, little is known about whether they have more diverse research interests than researchers with a single role, and whether their important position for science–technology interactions correlates with their diverse interests. For this purpose, we describe a rule-based approach for matching and identifying academic inventors, and an author interest discovery model with credit allocation schemes is utilized to measure the diversity of each researcher’s interests. Finally, extensive empirical results on the DrugBank dataset provide several valuable insights. Contrary to our intuitive expectation, the research interests of academic inventors are the least diverse, while those of authors are the most. In addition, the important position of the researchers has a certain relation with the diversity of research interests. More specifically, the degree of centrality has a significant positive correlation with the diversity of interests, and the constraint presents a significant negative correlation. A significant weaker negative correlation can also be observed between the diversity of research interests of academic inventors and their closeness centrality. The normalized betweenness centrality seems be independent from interest diversity. These conclusions help understand the mechanisms of the important position of academic inventors for science–technology interactions, from the perspective of research interests.

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Section: Academic Inventorsmentioning

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Do academic inventors have diverse interests?

Hao

2023

Scientometrics

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“…Based on prior research, the gatekeepers normally occupy the central position and perform the role of filling the hole between two actors (Li et al, 2020;Zacharias et al, 2021). In addition, considering different education background experiences that typically characterize members in an R&D team and subdisciplines (Berends et al, 2006;Hobman et al, 2004), sending knowledge that receivers are unfamiliar with can be costly, difficult j JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT j and time-consuming.…”

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Impact of qualified gatekeepers on team absorptive capacity: the mediating role of knowledge combination capability

Washida²,

Sasaki³

2022

JKM

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Purpose This study aims to examine direct effects of qualified team gatekeepers on absorptive capacity (AC), and the mediating roles of combinative capabilities – knowledge integration capability (KIC) and interteam coordination. Design/methodology/approach A social networking analysis was used to analyze a unique data set collected from all members of 32 Japanese research and development (R&D) teams to identify key individuals who perform daily gatekeeping functions. This study analyzed the data through partial least squares structural equation modeling with higher-order latent variables. Finally, cross-validation tests were used with holdout samples to test the model’s predictive validity. Findings Qualified gatekeepers directly contribute to teams’ realized AC but not to their potential AC. Furthermore, qualified gatekeepers can improve their teams’ capability to absorb and exploit external knowledge by facilitating their capability to consolidate knowledge, that is, its KIC and interteam coordination. Originality/value Unlike prior research that asks top managers to identify team gatekeepers, this study used social network analysis to identify these vital individuals. This study provides a new framework indicating how qualified gatekeepers impact the AC of R&D teams through the examination of both the direct and indirect paths of gatekeeping abilities, two combinative capabilities as mediators and team AC.

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“…Such as Jin et al [20] obtained vacuum technology through the technical efficiency matrix, that is, the technical field that has not yet been involved and takes it as the technology expansion objective. Moreover, through the study of scientific literature that directly associated patents, namely goalkeeper patents, as the must obtained technology in the transferring process of scientific theory to industrial applications [21].…”

Section: Technology Opportunity Analysismentioning

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Data-driven Product Functional Configuration: Patent Data and Hypergraph

Lin

Liu

Xiao

2021

Preprint

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Product functional configuration (PFC) is a common way for the firm to satisfy individual requirements of the customer and be carried out base on market analysis. This study aims to help firms analyze functions and carry out function configuration by the patent data. This paper proposes a patent data-driven product function configuration method based on a hypergraph network. It constructs a weighted network model to optimize the combination of product function quantity and object from the perspective of big data: (1) The functional knowledge contained in the patent is extracted. (2) The functional hypergraph (FH) is constructed according to the co-occurrence relationship of patent and applicant. (3) The function and patent weight are calculated from the perspective of the patent applicant and patent value. (4) The weight calculation model of PFC is built. (5) The weighted frequent subgraph algorithm is used to obtain the optimal function combination list. This method is applied in the innovative design process of a bathroom shower. The result indicates that this method designed in the study has a positive effect on helping firms detach optimal function candidates and develop a multi-function product.

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Gatekeepers in knowledge transfer between science and technology: an exploratory study in the area of gene editing

Cited by 12 publications

References 52 publications

Do academic inventors have diverse interests?

Do academic inventors have diverse interests?

Impact of qualified gatekeepers on team absorptive capacity: the mediating role of knowledge combination capability

Data-driven Product Functional Configuration: Patent Data and Hypergraph

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