The diffusion of scientific discoveries in government laboratories: The role of patents filed by government scientists |
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| Institution: | 1. Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program, Seoul National University;2. Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program & Integrated Major in Smart City Global Convergence, Seoul National University;1. Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program, Seoul National University;2. Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program & Integrated Major in Smart City Global Convergence, Seoul National University;1. Technology & Policy Research Initiative, Boston University, United States;2. Stern School of Business, New York University, United States;1. University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA;2. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA;3. Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637;4. Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02163, USA;5. Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02163, USA;6. Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA;7. Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA;1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States;2. New York University, United States;1. Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Innovation Management and Strategy, University of Groningen, Nettelbosje 2, Groningen, AE 9747, the Netherlands;2. Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Marstallplatz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany;3. Rotterdam School of Management, Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, the Netherlands;1. Institute of Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 141, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, the Netherlands;1. Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, BSE, UMR 6060, Pessac F-33600, France;2. SKEMA Business School, Université Côte d''Azur (GREDEG), Sophia-Antipolis, France;3. Université Côte d''Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France |
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| Abstract: | The study examines the role of a patent filed by government scientists in regard to the dissemination of scientific discoveries in government laboratories. While a patent filed by government scientists decreases the rate of follow-on patents in a technological area that overlaps with the areas of the focal patent, it increases the rate of follow-on patents in non-overlapping technological areas. The increase in follow-on inventions is attributed to risk-taking inventions, that is, inventions involve a high chance of resulting in either impactful or failure patents, rather than incremental inventions. It is also characterized by inventions with a high level of originality. Inventors in distant locations in terms of geographical and technological proximity are most affected by the patents filed by government scientists. The patent effect is pronounced when the government scientists involved in the focal discovery have fewer social connections and when the scientific field is less familiar in the industry. These findings are consistent with the idea that patenting by government scientists helps facilitate the dissemination of technological information or potential of scientific discoveries in government laboratories. Policy and managerial implications are also discussed. |
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