Both China and India, the emerging giants in Asia, have achieved significant economic development in recent years. China has enjoyed a high annual GDP growth rate of 10 per cent and India has achieved an annual GDP growth rate of 6 per cent since 1981. Decomposing China and India’s GDP growth from 1981 to 2004 into the three factors’ contribution reveals that technology has contributed signific...

We report the findings of a month-long online competition in which participants developed algorithms for augmenting the digital version of patent documents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The goal was to detect figures and part labels in U.S. patent drawing pages. The challenge drew 232 teams of two, of which 70 teams (30%) submitted solutions. Collectively, ...

Patents are one of the important outputs of innovation processes within firms, and have been a topic of extensive research recently, spurred in no little part by the publication of the NBER patent data (Hall, Jaffe and Trajtenberg, 2001) and the availability of patent data online (e.g. the USPTO website). This study uses name-matching procedures to create a new dataset that links the NBER paten...

Patent data represent a significant source of information on innovation, knowledge production, and the evolution of technology through networks of citations, co-invention and co-assignment. A major obstacle to extracting useful information from this data is the problem of name disambiguation: linking alternate spellings of individuals or institutions to a single identifier to uniquely determine...

This paper offers new insights into the role of firms versus individuals in driving technology directions, and the extent to which human capital may be lost during industrial shifts. We explore in particular whether (1) due to different offshore production economics, firms who move manufacturing offshore slow U.S.-based R&D activities in an emerging technology and (2) the inventors originally w...

A. Arsanjani The tools, methods, and techniques used to create business architecture are often quite different from those used in developing software architecture. This ‘‘impedance mismatch’’ or gap is aggravated by volatile business requirements that need to be satisfied in operational systems. Bridging this gap not only allows a more seamless transition and faster time to market, but also ena...

This project aims to model the h-index of a firm as a function of several properties of the owning organization’s patent co-authorship and citation networks. Studies have shown that the number of forward citations a patent receives strongly correlate with its market value [3], which is of great interest to potential investors. Unfortunately, future number of forward citations of particularly hi...

This Article reports an empirical study of the network composed of patent “nodes” and citation “links” between them. It builds on an earlier study in which we argued that trends in the growth of the patent citation network provide evidence that the explosive growth in patenting in the late twentieth century was due at least in part to the issuance of increasingly trivial patents. We defined a m...

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Assoc. for Mol. Pathology v. USPTO (2010-1406) (informally referred to as the Myriad decision), provides some clarity to entrepreneurs and scientists working in the personalized medicine industry. The Court overturned the district court decision and confirmed that isolated DNA molecules are patent eligible subject matter as they “have a distinctive chemi...