This paper explores the complex relationship between scientific novelty and technological
impact. We measure novel science as publications which make new combinations of prior …

Research which explores unchartered waters has a high potential for major impact but also
carries a higher uncertainty of having impact. Such explorative research is often described …

Highly cited American papers are selectively cited by American patents. A US paper among
the top 1% most highly cited papers is nine times more likely to be cited by a US patent than …

A status report is presented on indicators of the linkage between technology, as
characterized by granted US patents, and science as characterized by the “Other …

In recent years, there has been a trend towards a science and technology policy that is
applied in nature. In times of growing public discontent about high taxation and budget …

There is a rich literature on how science and technology are related to each other. Patent
citation analysis is amongst the most frequently used to tool to track the strengths of links. In …

Scientists, social scientists and politicians frequently credit basic science with stimulating
technological innovation, and with it economic growth. Despite a substantial body of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to look at the sharp increase in academic patenting
over the past 20 years and to raise important issues regarding the generation and diffusion …

A frequently made claim in the innovation literature is that important inventions involve the
transfer of new knowledge from one technological domain to another. This study uses US …

Novelty indicators are increasingly important for science policy. This paper challenges the
indicators of novelty as an atypical combination of knowledge (Uzzi et al., 2013) and as the …