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SUBMITTER: Napolitano L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030307 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Napolitano Lorenzo L Evangelou Evangelos E Pugliese Emanuele E Zeppini Paolo P Room Graham G
Royal Society open science 20180627 6
We analyse the autocatalytic structure of technological networks and evaluate its significance for the dynamics of innovation patenting. To this aim, we define a directed network of technological fields based on the International Patents Classification, in which a source node is connected to a receiver node via a link if patenting activity in the source field anticipates patents in the receiver field in the same region more frequently than we would expect at random. We show that the evolution of ...[more]