This report presents the main results of a study, Highly Cited Patents, Highly Cited Publications, and Research Networks, conducted for the European Commission by the Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalization (CESPRI) of Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan. The study purported to appraise the existence and the importance of social network linkages between the authors of scientific publications cited in patents (i.e. scientists) and the generators of patented inventions (i.e. inventors). The study focused upon five technology fields, characterised by high degrees of science intensity as measured by the average number of citations to scientific publications per patent, and by high growth rates in the number of patent applications.
Stefano Breschi, Gianluca Tarasconi, Christian Catalini, Lorenzo Novella, Paolo Guatta, Hrannar Johnson - Download here
PhD Candidate in Strategy at the Rotman School of Management and technology enthusiast, I wrote my undergraduate degree thesis on the economics of open source development and my MSc final dissertation on "The link between science and technology: exploring the network of inventors and scientific authors in the semiconductor industry". After working at KITES-CESPRI Bocconi on the European research project “Highly cited patent”, I've started my PhD in Strategic Management at Rotman. Current projects include "Markets Making Music", with Ajay Agrawal; "Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Formal Standards", with Timothy Simcoe; "Authors-inventors: life on the boundary between science and technology", with Stefano Breschi. 
