Erschienen in:Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper ; No. 3331686
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1 Online-Ressource (47 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3331686
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 15, 2019 erstellt
Beschreibung:
To what extent do firms rely on basic science in their R&D efforts? Several scholars have sought to answer this and related questions, but progress has been impeded by the difficulty of matching unstructured references in patents to published papers. We introduce an open-access dataset of references from the front pages of patents granted worldwide to scientific papers published since 1800. Each patent-paper linkage is assigned a confidence score, which is characterized in a random sample by false negatives vs. false positives. We outline several avenues for strategy research enabled by these new data