Chen, Zifeng; Guan, Jiancheng - In: Journal of Informetrics 4 (2010) 1, pp. 97-106
This paper investigates the impact of small world properties and the size of largest component on innovation … for the patent collaboration networks of 16 main innovative countries during 1975–2006. We combine small world network … consistent with recent concerns regarding positive effects of largest component on patent output. We do find that small-world …