Who reads patents?

Who Reads This Stuff Anyway?

I DON’T THINK anything in our industry would get done without deadlines. We have that block of code to write by next month, a presentation to complete for a staff meeting next Friday, and that paper to write by the ITC due date. “Schedules are for slipping,” said a manager in Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, but a slip just means a new deadline. I had a manager who required a date for each...

Who's Who in Patents. A Bayesian approach

This paper proposes a bayesian methodology to treat the who’s who problem arising in individual level data sets such as patent data. We assess the usefullness of this methodology on the set of all French inventors appearing on EPO applications from 1978 to 2003.

Who Reads Corporate Tweets? Network Analysis of Follower Communities

Social networking sites became very popular since the introduction of Six Degrees in 1997 and companies started to utilize them to build online communities. This research aims to further understand online communities by analyzing the network structure and composition of Twitter follower networks. An explorative analysis is conducted on the Twitter follower network of Europe’s twenty-five larges...

The whys and wherefores of who reads dermatopathology slides.

Before exploring this topic, I must admit to my own financial bias. As director of an academic dermatopathology laboratory employing 4 dermatopathologists in addition to myself, I would prefer that all skin biopsy specimens be sent to our laboratory for processing and interpretation. Since this is not possible, I would settle for all skin specimens in the state of Connecticut. Since this is als...

[Who reads (but does not quote) Brazilian science].