MIOIR Seminar Series with Dr Alfredo Yegros

Alliance Manchester Business School

Dr Alfredo Yegros explores how inventors balance knowledge disclosure and protection through citation practices in patent–publication pairs.

Alliance Manchester Business School (online also available)

What Gets Cited? Reference Practices in Patent–Publication Pairs Abstract:While the relationship between science and technology has been extensively examined through citation linkages, far less attention has been paid to the micro-level alignment of citations between directly related documents. This study examines patent-publication pairs to explore how prior knowledge is referenced within and across the scientific (publications) and technical (patents) domains.Using matched data from the Web of Science and PATSTAT, patent–publication pairs were identified through shared backward references, inventor–author overlap, and title similarity. This dataset, enriched with full-text patent citations from the Reliance on Science project, enabled the categorisation of cited references as appearing exclusively in the publication, exclusively in the patent, or in both. The analysis quantifies and characterises overlaps across citation types, focusing on citations to previous scientific literature.The study advances understanding of how inventors balance knowledge disclosure and protection strategies, offering new insights into how researchers adapt the same research outputs to distinct contexts, shaping it into scientific and technological documents. Speaker Bio:<a href="https://www.researchcghe.org/people/alfredo-yegros/" title="https://www.researchcghe.org/people/alfredo-yegros/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alfredo Yegros</a> is a researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University in the Netherlands and was a CGHE Research Associate on the former Project 1.3, ‘Higher education’s engagement with industry: metrics and indicators of boundary spanning UK academics’.Alfredo’s current research revolves around quantitative studies of science and technology. More specifically, the analysis of public-private research interactions and knowledge flows, the study of science-technology linkages, and the study of methods potentially able to capture societal impact of scientific research are some of his research interests. The <a href="https://www.mioir.manchester.ac.uk/" title="https://www.mioir.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Manchester Institute of Innovation Research</a> runs a series of regular seminars given by visiting speakers to Manchester. These seminars are open to anybody who is interested in science, technology and innovation policy and management.This event is in person for AMBS and UoM staff and students, with an online option available. External participants are welcome to join online via Microsoft Teams.