Alfredo Yegros explores how inventors balance knowledge disclosure and protection through citation practices in patent–publication pairs.
Abstract:
While the relationship between science and technology has been extensively examined through citation linkages, far less attention has been paid to the micro-level alignment of citations between directly related documents. This study examines patent-publication pairs to explore how prior knowledge is referenced within and across the scientific (publications) and technical (patents) domains.
Using matched data from the Web of Science and PATSTAT, patent–publication pairs were identified through shared backward references, inventor–author overlap, and title similarity. This dataset, enriched with full-text patent citations from the Reliance on Science project, enabled the categorisation of cited references as appearing exclusively in the publication, exclusively in the patent, or in both. The analysis quantifies and characterises overlaps across citation types, focusing on citations to previous scientific literature.
The study advances understanding of how inventors balance knowledge disclosure and protection strategies, offering new insights into how researchers adapt the same research outputs to distinct contexts, shaping it into scientific and technological documents.
Speaker bio:
Alfredo Yegros is a researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University in the Netherlands and was a CGHE Research Associate on the former Project 1.3, ‘Higher education’s engagement with industry: metrics and indicators of boundary spanning UK academics’.
Alfredo’s current research revolves around quantitative studies of science and technology. More specifically, the analysis of public-private research interactions and knowledge flows, the study of science-technology linkages, and the study of methods potentially able to capture societal impact of scientific research are some of his research interests.
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