2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Exploring the flow of publicly-funded research into commercialised inventions
| Project/Area Number |
21K13360
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
Higham Kyle 一橋大学, 大学院経営管理研究科, 特任助教 (00886666)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Science of science / Commercialisation / Public science / Patenting |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research project is almost complete, with a formal literature review and discussion section currently in progress. The former has been very useful in further contextualisation our results; the literature on absorptive capacity has been particularly useful.
I have now incorporated several measures to capture the distance between science and technology, each with a different legal meaning. This allows a nuanced understanding of the relationship between a patent's proximity to public science and its probability of commercialization. In particular, I find that patents that are very close to science have a lower chance of commercialisation.
At the citation level, I find that citations made by commercialised patents are more likely to bridge a large time gap, indicating that science must mature to an extend before it can be applied with the caveat that the relative impact of this science (on other science) does not play any role. These results are robust to citation origin (who likely made the citation), which is also a novel approach. This is the opposite conclusion to previous work that only examined the impact of patents in terms of their forward-citation counts, which has been the accepted view until now (commercialisation data has not been used in this context before).
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