Citations of other patents or the non-patent literature (notably scientific publications) are useful in quantifying knowledge transfers across organisations (e.g. compa y to comp ny or university to industr ), eographical regions or technolo y fields, as well as capturing knowledge spillo r from specific inv nting entities (e.g. multinational to omestic firms or from public res arch centres to ...

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is signi…cantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to p...

Inventions is instituting an annual award to recognize the outstanding papers published in the journal. We are pleased to announce the first “Inventions Best Paper Award” for 2017. Nominations, chosen from all papers published in 2016, were made by the Editorial Board. Following review by the Editorial Board, the following three top-voted research articles, in no particular order, have won “Inv...

Creativity refers to the capability to catch original and valuable ideas and solutions. It involves different processes. In this study the extent to which visual creativity is related to cognitive processes underlying visual mental imagery was investigated. Fifty college students (25 women) carried out: the Creative Synthesis Task, which measures the ability to produce creative objects belongin...