--- title: "Tracing the Linkages Between Science and Technology" authors: ["Stefano Breschi", "Christian Catalini"] venue: "Research Policy" year: 2010 area: science featured: false links: pdf: "https://www.catalini.com/s/Tracing-the-links-between-science-and-technology.pdf" preview: "/images/papers/tracing-science-technology.png" abstract: "An exploratory network analysis of scientists and inventors, tracing how knowledge moves between science and technology through the people who both publish and patent — and what the structure of those networks reveals about where academic research feeds invention." --- In the paper, we study the interactions between the networks of co-authorship and co-invention in science-intensive fields, and focus on the individuals (authors-inventors) that facilitate knowledge transfer between academic science and corporate R&D. The paper - one of the first to use large scale data on scientific references cited in patents - highlights the challenges of simultaneously holding a key position in both communities, and shows how the scarcity of bridging scientists in Europe relative to the US can explain the lower levels of technology transfer observed in the old continent. [Download the paper](/s/Tracing-the-links-between-science-and-technology.pdf)