Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy … concludes that policy measures to stimulate corporate R&D and innovation activities should be expressly conceived according to …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …