Modeling innovation by a kinetic description of the patent citation system

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 374, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 783-793

  Csárdi, Gábor ^a,b   Strandburg, Katherine J ^c   Zalányi, László ^a,b   Tobochnik, Jan ^b   Érdi, Péter ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b KALAMAZOO COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Citation network; Innovation; Patents; Preferential attachment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CITATION NETWORK; PATENT CITATIONS; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENT;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 33751092304     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.08.022     Document Type: Article

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