Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/225798
Title: A Geometry of Innovation
Authors: Bussy, Adrien 
Geiecke, Friedrich
Keywords: NLP
Patents
Innovation
Growth
Issue Date: 19-Aug-2020
Citation: Bussy, Adrien, Geiecke, Friedrich (2020-08-19). A Geometry of Innovation. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: We use methods from Natural Language Processing to characterize the innovative content of patents. We develop several metrics that compare inventions to existing and future innovations. The intuition guiding us is that patents dissimilar to past inventions and similar to future ones may have anticipated or started shifts in innovation topics. We find evidence that such patents have higher citations and the firms owning them grow faster and are more profitable relative to other firms. Analysis of trends suggests that innovative ideas may have gotten harder to find over time in high-innovation fields.
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/225798
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