The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors
Kang,Byeongwoo: Rudi Bekkers
WP#22-06 Hitotsubashi University IIR (2022/11/07)
Historical accounts describe numerous cases of parallel invention. Nowadays, with over half a million inventions yearly that apply for patent protection at the USPTO alone, it is likely that there are a lot of parallel inventions among these. Yet, the mechanisms behind creating similar knowledge remain unstudied. From both a theoretica…