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Despite extensive research on scientific disruption, two questions remain: why disruption has declined amid growing knowledge, and why disruptive work receives fewer and delayed citations. One way to address these questions is to identify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-11 Xiaoyao Yu , Talal Rahwan , Tao Jia

This paper studies the impact of artificial intelligence on innovation, exploiting the randomized introduction of a new materials discovery technology to 1,018 scientists in the R&D lab of a large U.S. firm. AI-assisted researchers discover…

General Economics · Economics 2025-05-21 Aidan Toner-Rodgers

We introduce a novel approach to description of networks/graphs. It is based on an analogue physical model which is dynamically evolved. This evolution depends on the connectivity matrix and readily brings out many qualitative features of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Gudkov , Joseph E. Johnson , Shmuel Nussinov

To better align theories of paradigm shifting discoveries and empirics identifying them, we pro-pose a novel measure that incorporates a discovery impact, novelty, and tendency to break with the past into a single, coherent measure.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sajad Ashouri , Arash Hajikhani , Ari Hyytinen , Petri Rouvinen , Arho Suominen

In this paper, we tackle the problem of innovation spreading from a modeling point of view. We consider a networked system of individuals, with a competition between two groups. We show its relation to the innovation spreading issues. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-07 Krzysztof Suchecki , Andrea Scharnhorst , Janusz A. Holyst

We investigate some of the properties and extensions of a dynamic innovation network model recently introduced in \citep{koenig07:_effic_stabil_dynam_innov_networ}. In the model, the set of efficient graphs ranges, depending on the cost for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-04-05 Michael D. Koenig , Stefano Battiston , Mauro Napoletano , Frank Schweitzer

This paper advances a framework for modeling the component interactions between cognitive and social aspects of scientific creativity and technological innovation. Specifically, it aims to characterize Innovation Networks; those networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Petra Ahrweiler , Mark T. Keane

As researchers, we are now witnessing a fundamental change in our technologically-enabled world due to the advent and diffusion of highly disruptive technologies such as generative AI, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Margaret-Anne Storey , Daniel Russo , Nicole Novielli , Takashi Kobayashi , Dong Wang

The rapid rise of AI is poised to disrupt the labor market. However, AI is not a monolith; its impact depends on both the nature of the innovation and the jobs it affects. While computational approaches are emerging, there is no consensus…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Munjung Kim , Marios Constantinides , Sanja Šćepanović , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Daniele Quercia

Centrality is an important notion in network analysis and is used to measure the degree to which network structure contributes to the importance of a node in a network. While many different centrality measures exist, most of them apply to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-06-04 Kristina Lerman , Rumi Ghosh , Jeon Hyung Kang

Firms' innovation potential depends on their position in the R&D network. But details on this relation remain unclear because measures to quantify network embeddedness have been controversially discussed. We propose and validate a new…

General Economics · Economics 2022-05-17 Giacomo Vaccario , Luca Verginer , Antonios Garas , Mario V. Tomasello , Frank Schweitzer

In the rapidly evolving landscape of technological innovation, safeguarding intellectual property rights through patents is crucial for fostering progress and stimulating research and development investments. This report introduces a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Kapil Kashyap , Sean Fargose , Gandhar Dhonde , Aditya Mishra

We present a statistical framework for generating predicted dynamic networks based on the observed evolution of social relationships in a population. The framework includes a novel and flexible procedure to sample dynamic networks given a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ravi Goyal , Victor De Gruttola

Innovation is cumulative and interdependent: successful inventions build on prior knowledge within technological fields and may also affect success across related ones. Yet these dimensions are often studied separately in the innovation…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-10 Giacomo Aletti , Irene Crimaldi , Andrea Ghiglietti , Federico Nutarelli

A knowledge search is a key process for inventions. However, there is inadequate quantitative modeling of dynamic knowledge search processes and associated search costs. In this study, agent-based and complex network methodologies were…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Haiying Ren , Yuanyuan Song , Rui Peng

Innovation or the creation and diffusion of new material, social and cultural things in society has been widely studied in sociology and across the social sciences, with investigations sufficiently diverse and dispersed to make them…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-20 Likun Cao , Ziwen Chen , James Evans

Innovation is to organizations what evolution is to organisms: it is how organisations adapt to changes in the environment and improve. Governments, institutions and firms that innovate are more likely to prosper and stand the test of time;…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-07 T. M. A. Fink , M. Reeves , R. Palma , R. S. Farr

Network embedding has recently emerged as a promising technique to embed nodes of a network into low-dimensional vectors. While fairly successful, most existing works focus on the embedding techniques for static networks. But in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zenan Xu , Zijing Ou , Qinliang Su , Jianxing Yu , Xiaojun Quan , Zhenkun Lin

The network, the nodes of which are concepts (people's names, companies' names, etc.), extracted from web-publications, is considered. A working algorithm of extracting such concepts is presented. Edges of the network under consideration…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 D. V. Lande , A. A. Snarskii

Science is built on the scholarly consensus that shifts with time. This raises the question of how new and revolutionary ideas are evaluated and become accepted into the canon of science. Using two recently proposed metrics, we identify…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yiling Lin , James Allen Evans , Lingfei Wu