Mohammadi, Ali; Franzoni, Chiara - In: Industry and Innovation 21 (2014) 1, pp. 65-87
This paper investigates the antecedents of patent importance by looking at the prior knowledge set of academic … inventors. Using independent methodologies, we distinguish between the scientific knowledge set and the technical knowledge set … scholarly knowledge of the topic are on average more important (more cited after 6 years). Conversely, we find an inverted U …