AOM Session: Using Patent Data for Research
Program Session #: 231
Sponsors: TIM, BPS
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 4 2007 2:40PM - 5:00PM at Philadelphia Marriott in Room 301
Organizer: Deepak Somaya; U. of Maryland, College Park;
Organizer: Jasjit Singh; INSEAD;
Presenter: Jeffrey Furman; Boston U.;
Presenter: David Hsu; Wharton School;
Presenter: Bhaven Sampat; Columbia U.;
Discussant: Scott Stern; Northwestern U.;
Presenter: Lee Fleming; Harvard U.;
This PDW focuses on the use of patent data for empirical management research. The primary goals of the PDW are to provide an introduction for researchers new to the area, balanced with a scholarly discussion of current critical issues for more experienced colleagues. This year, one of our secondary goals is to foster a conversation between scholars using patent data in the knowledge/ innovation and strategy/appropriability streams of management research, respectively. The co-chairs will begin the PDW with an overview of the types of data used in patent analysis, and each presenter will explore state-of-the art uses of patent data and related methodological issues: specifically, individual inventors' movement and networks (Fleming), identification of knowledge flows (Furman), measuring innovation and entrepreneurship (Hsu), and patent application and prosecution history data (Sampat). The discussant (Stern) will share his view of the directions this field is progressing in, and open the floor to discussion. This PDW seeks to continue the tradition of past AOM patent data management workshops, organized by among others Rosemarie Ziedonis (2003), Michelle Gittelman (2004), Graham and Reitzig (2005) and Lowe and Veloso (2006).