Explicitly searching for useful inventions: Dynamic relatedness and the costs of connecting versus synthesizing

Scientometrics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 381-404

  Hsieh, Chihmao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connections; Inventions; Linkage; Patents; Relatedness; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650993440     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0290-9     Document Type: Article

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