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 …

This collection investigates the phenomenon of ""Open Innovation,"", in which firms draw on research and development … that may lie outside their own boundaries. The book's contributors link the practice of innovation to the established body … of innovation rsearch, showing what's new and what's familiar in the process. Looking in depth at a process recently …