catalini.com - Christian Catalini

This page links to a database containing information from the combined IPR disclosure statements made at several major Standard Setting Organizations. Please let us know if you find a new use for this information. If you have questions, or would like to help us collect more data on IPRs linked to industry standards, please contact either Tim or Christian using the links on the website.

http://www.ssopatents.org

A first draft of the paper behind the dataset will be presented by Tim at the AoM annual meeting in Chicago (TIM, BPS) on Monday, August 10th from 8:00-9:30am:

http://program.aomonline.org/2009/submission.asp?mode=showsession&SessionID=608

From Events and Media Relations @ Rotman:

"Synopsis: In 1999, an unknown Northeastern University student named Shawn Fanning released – with little fanfare – a program for sharing music over the Internet. Despite its modest dorm room origins, that innovation and subsequent permutations had a devastating effect on the recorded music industry worldwide. In Canada, for example, revenues declined by a stunning 50% between 1999 and 2007, after adjusting for inflation. In fact some industry observers, reflecting on the rise of Internet traffic and the concurrent decline in music sales, referred to the launch of Napster as “The Day the Music Died.”

Almost a decade later, however, in 2008, something surprising happened. In order to finance the recording and production of her debut album, an unknown artist in Montreal named Angie Arsenault turned to another Internet innovation and raised $50,000 from 531 “believers” spread across 34 countries using an online market-making platform that virtually no one had heard of – Sellaband. She was the first Canadian to successfully do so. Sellaband had been launched in the Netherlands – with little fanfare – two years earlier, in 2006.

Although it is too early to speculate on long-term industry trends, Prof. Agrawal will present insights based on Sellaband data, of what general lessons might be learned from this unique artist market in terms of peer-to-peer lending and microfinance (believers invest in $10 increments), foreign direct investment (artists raise much of their financing from outside their home country), and crowd-financing (believers have collectively financed only a select few from thousands of artists featured on the site).

Registration will be available from 7:00 until 7:30. At 7:30 sharp we’ll begin the session and introduce our esteemed lecturer, Prof. Ajay Agrawal, Director of the Program on Innovation and Creative Industries at our Martin Prosperity Institute and Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship at Rotman. A synopsis of his presentation is below. After that he’ll lead a Q&A with Sellaband CEO and Co-Founder Johan Vosmeijer  and Sellaband recording artist Angie Arsenault.  A live cd debut concert by Angie and her band will follow."

The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical exploratory analysis of the research networks linking scientists engaged in the world of open science and researchers involved in the domain of private technology. To this purpose, the study combines in an original way data on scientific co-authorship and data on patent co-invention at the level of individual researchers for three science intensive technology fields, i.e. lasers, semi-conductors and biotechnology, in order to assess the extent of overlap between the two communities and to identify the role of key individuals in the process of knowledge transfer.

Stefano Breschi and Christian Catalini - Download here

The interaction between science and technology (S&T) is a complex and heterogeneous process. Knowledge flows between the communities of “Open Science” and “Proprietary technology” are usually local in terms of technological, geographical or social proximity. The aim of this study is to quantify knowledge spillovers between S&T, using the bibliographic references contained in patents as “paper trails”. Patent documents and cited scientific articles are used to build a comprehensive social network of authors and inventors in the semiconductor industry. The networks of discovery and invention are then related in order to analyze the mechanisms underlying the diffusion of new information. Individuals who are both scientific authors and inventors act as technological gatekeepers, reconciling the different incentive schemes and interests of S&T. Authors-inventors are influential people in the network: they actually control most of the knowledge flows between different groups, are more connected and if removed, significantly increase the average social distance between the others. The interplay between geography and social distance is further investigated in a regression framework, so as to estimate the effect of social ties and geographical distance on the probability of a citation from a patent to a scientific article. The results indicate that social networks are indeed an effective diffusion vehicle for new knowledge and can help overcome geographical distance. Linked individuals are able to exchange complex and tacit knowledge even without being co-located in the same place, as they have developed the common vocabulary that makes them a “community of experts”.

Christian Catalini - Download here