Invention as a combinatorial process: Evidence from US patents

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 106, 2015, Pages

  Youn, Hyejin ^a,b,c   Strumsky, Deborah ^d   Bettencourt, Luis M A ^c   Lobo, José ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d The University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex system; Technological change; Technological evolution

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

INVENTIVE PROCESS; PATENTED INVENTION; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL COMBINATION; TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INVENTION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PATENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NOMENCLATURE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TECHNOLOGY; TRENDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATENTS AS TOPIC; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929500827     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0272     Document Type: Article

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