Csárdi, Gábor; Strandburg, Katherine J.; Zalányi, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 374 (2007) 2, pp. 783-793
This paper reports results of a network theory approach to the study of the United States patent system. We model the patent citation network as a discrete time, discrete space stochastic dynamic system. From patent data we extract an attractiveness function, A(k,l), which determines the...