Innovation Information Initiative Technical Working Group Meeting
Organized by Matt Marx
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
December 5-6, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Longfellow Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA, Zoom

Friday, December 5

4:00 pm

Welcome/Introductions

New Sources of Patent Data

4:15 pm

Biologics Patent Database

Melissa F. Wasserman, University of Texas at Austin
Michael D. Frakes, Duke University and NBER

4:45 pm

Constructing the Soviet Patent Dataset

Evgenii Fadeev, Duke University
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

5:15 pm

I3 Fellows Presentations (1)

5:45 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Reception and Group Dinner - Parkview Room

Saturday, December 6

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Metascience

9:00 am

Reliance on Scientific Ideas in Patenting

Sam Arts, KU Leuven
Nicola Melluso, LUISS University

9:30 am

Tracking Knowledge Production Among European PhD Graduates: Publication and Exit Patterns Over Time

Alberto Corsini, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Johannes Koenig, University of Kassel
Burcu Ozgun, Utrecht University
Andriy Romanyuk, Université de Bordeaux
Guido Buenstorf, University of Kassel
Francesco Lissoni, Université de Bordeaux
Ernest Miguelez, AQR-IREA, University of Barcelona
Michele Pezzoni, Université Côte d'Azur
Catalina Martínez, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

10:00 am

SciSciGPT: Advancing Human-AI Collaboration in the Science of Science

Erzhuo Shao, Northwestern University
Yifang Wang, Florida State University
Yifan Qian, Northwestern University
Zhenyu Pan, Northwestern University
Han Liu, Northwestern University
Dashun Wang, Northwestern University

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

I3 Fellows Presentations (2)

11:30 am

Break

Building Datasets with AI & Machine Learning

11:45 am

Architectur (al Innovation) is (Mostly) all you Need

Saqib Mumta Choudhary, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley

12:15 pm

The Black Founder Dataset: Bridging Computer Vision and Self-Identification to Map Entrepreneurial Diversity

Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University

12:45 pm

AI-Based Measurement of Innovation: Mapping Expert Insight into Large Language Model Applications

Robin Nowak, University of Passau
Patrick Figge, University of Passau
Carolin Haeussler, University of Passau

1:15 pm

Lunch and Adjourn