The nearly universal link between the age of past knowledge and tomorrow’s breakthroughs in science and technology: The hotspot

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Mukherjee, Satyam ^a   Romero, Daniel M ^a,b   Jones, Ben ^a,c   Uzzi, Brian ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BUILDING BLOCKES; CITATION IMPACT; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC PAPERS; THREE LINKS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INVENTOR; PATENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOLOGY; WEB OF SCIENCE; WHEY;

EID: 85036647191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601315     Document Type: Article

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