Li, Guan-Cheng; Lai, Ronald; D’Amour, Alexander; … - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 6, pp. 941-955
, making large-scale studies challenging. Many scholars of innovation have implemented ad-hoc disambiguation methods based on … Author-ity disambiguation approach (Torvik et al., 2005; Torvik and Smalheiser, 2009) to the US utility patent database, (2 … of inventors and their associated patents. The paper provides an overview of the disambiguation method, assesses its …