The changing composition of innovative activity in the US - A portrait based on patent analysis

Diana Hicks; Tony Breitzman; Dominic Olivastro; Kimberly Hamilton

doi:10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00147-5

The changing composition of innovative activity in the US - A portrait based on patent analysis

Diana Hicks, Tony Breitzman, Dominic Olivastro, Kimberly Hamilton

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In this paper, patent bibliometrics are used to investigate shifts underway in the American innovation system. Patent indicators point to extraordinarily dynamic innovation in information and health technologies accompanied by a shift in the center of US innovation from the East to the West Coast. Innovating companies are adapting to the demise of large corporate basic research laboratories by using their own research instead. Growth in university patenting is also striking, and universities have become dominant patentees in a few large, economically vibrant cities. The importance of universities to local innovation has also been revealed by the growth in referencing from patents to papers which allows us to see that companies preferentially reference papers from in-state public sector institutions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	681-703
Number of pages	23
Journal	Research Policy
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00147-5
State	Published - Apr 2001
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Strategy and Management
Management Science and Operations Research
Management of Technology and Innovation

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