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No D/624: Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method

Bruno Cassiman (), Patrick Glenisson and Bart Van Looy
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Bruno Cassiman: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Patrick Glenisson: KU Leuven and Business & Decision Benelux
Bart Van Looy: KU Leuven and Steunpunt O&O Statistieken

Abstract: In this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.

Keywords: innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling

15 pages, March 27, 2006

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