Using publication data to advance knowledge in innovation studies
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The Chair of Innovation and IP Policy (IIPP) of Prof. G. de Rassenfosse will organise a workshop on the use of scientific publication data in social science research.
The workshop will gather both “power users” that apply advanced data science techniques to address issues such as author disambiguation and regular users that use data to answer questions in the field of economics of innovation and science. The workshop objectives are to build a community of scholars in the field in order to share both best practices and data.
Among the topics that will be discussed, Prof. Fabian Waldinger (London School of Economics) will talk about frontier knowledge and the creation of ideas, Prof Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) will talk about the Institute’s effort to track scientific publications in patent data, and Prof. Kazuyuki Motohashi (University of Tokyo) will talk about ways to measure the “science intensity” of industrial actors.
The IIPP chair will also unveil its agenda concerning “open science” initiatives. It will explain four programs that will create data that will be shared freely with the scientific community.
The workshop will be held in the Odyssea Building on June 20th and will be attended by about 40 participants. It is organised in collaboration with Clarivate Analytics, the company that produces the Web of Science database.