Innovation Information Initiative Technical Working Group Meeting
Organized by Matt Marx
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
December 6-7, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Longfellow Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA, Zoom
Friday, December 6
4:00 pm
Welcome and introductions, Matt Marx
4:15 pm
New Ventures, Products, and Tools

Database, Methodological Tools, and Research Opportunities: Creative Destruction Lab and Early-Stage Technology Ventures

Amir Sariri, Purdue University
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto and NBER

New Products

Abhiroop Mukherjee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Bruno Pellegrino, Columbia University and NBER
Alminas Zaldokas, National University of Singapore
Yiman Ren, University of Michigan
Tomas Thornquist, Shell Street Labs

Novelpy: A Python Package to Measure Novelty and Disruptiveness of Bibliometric and Patent Data

Pierre Pelletier, University of Strasbourg
Kevin Wirtz, University of Strasbourg
5:45 pm
Introducing the I3 BigQuery Data Repository
Dror Shvadron, University of Toronto
6:00 pm
Adjourn
6:15 pm
Reception and Group Dinner - Somerset Room
Saturday, December 7
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Building Datasets with LLMs

LLM-based Topic Modeling

Victor Lyonnet, University of Michigan
Amin Shams, The Ohio State University
Shaojun Zhang, The Ohio State University

A Robust Green Patent Database: A New Dataset of Green Patents Through Large Language Models

Yuan Sun, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Xuan Tian, Tsinghua University
Yuanchen Yang, Tsinghua University

Distilling Data from Large Language Models: An Application to Research Productivity Measurement (slides)

Maya Durvasula, Stanford University
Sabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University
David Micha. Ritzwoller, Stanford University
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Comparative NLP Methods

Tracing the Flow of Knowledge From Science to Technology Using Deep Learning (slides)

Michael E. Rose, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Erik Buunk, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Sebastian Erhardt, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Cheng Li, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Mainak Ghosh, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Patent Text and Long-Run Innovation Dynamics: The Critical Role of Model Selection

Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and NBER
Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Vitaly Meursault, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Nicholas F. Reynolds, University of Essex
11:45 am
Global Patent Data

A New Database of Indian Patents (slides)

Nishant Chadha, Indian School of Business (ISB)
Satyaki Chakravarty, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Piyasha Majumdar, India Development Foundation

Creating the China Patent Dataset

Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Namrata Narain, Harvard University
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER

A Novel Dataset for Historical Innovation Studies: Linking USPTO Patents and US Census Data from 1850 to 1940

Zenne Hellinga, Utrecht University
Jay Praka. Nagar, Duke University
Stefano Breschi, Bocconi University
Andrea Morrison, University of Pavia
Gianluca Tarasconi, IPQuants
1:15 pm
Lunch - Room Skyline ABC
2:00 pm
Adjourn