The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the inventors. The residences of the inventors show different patterns in the two datasets. Furthermore, we analyze the spatial distance between inventors for patents invented in...

We defined the concept of a common-knowledge network of authors in a research institution and used it to identify communities of authors using a new heuristic algorithm for clustering editing problem on weighted similarity measure networks. We analyzed dominant research topics based on most...