Innovation
Thoughts on AI, deep tech and data — plus weekly reads from the innovation and technology management literature.
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Weekly Reads - Feb 25
This week was a little slow for interesting management articles. I'll just add fascinating podcast episodes and discussions from the web. Scientific novelty and technological impact - Tries to find the connection between the novelty of scientific publications and technological impact through resulting patents. Novelty…
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Weekly Reads - Feb 17
These are my interesting reads from this week. Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology - An extensive study trying to understand what makes disruptive science. It looks at millions of patents, publications and Github repositories to show that small teams are…
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Weekly Reads - Feb 10
Interesting management reads from the previous week Beyond the matrix: Visual methods for qualitative network research - collecting network data for qualitative studies Foundations of entrepreneurial strategy - how do entrepreneurs decide which strategy to pursue Strategic choice in universities: Managerial agency and effective technology…
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Low Risk High Reward Career Advice
From time to time, I get messages from students asking for career advice. In the academia community in Reddit, there are daily posts also asking for how to search for jobs or find mentors. If I had one advice for highly motivated students who might…
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Conforming vs. Differentiating in Everything
In the first month of my PhD, I came across the article by Hambrick and Chen on how academic fields develop . Briefly, they described three processes that fields how to go through to receive acceptance: differentiation, legitimation and mobilization. The first differentiation means that…
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The Science of Science
Last week, I was having lunch with a colleague and she asked me, "what is your research niche?" The answer did not come as easily because it was something I was struggling with before. Ever since I started my PhD, I was exploring various perspectives…
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Getting Featured in Nature Biotech
There has been more push for scientists to interact with the greater public. As a young scientist hoping to break into the field, it is important to take every opportunity to get exposure. Last year, I had a great opportunity to be featured in Nature…
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Bibliometrics Assisted Literature Review
Starting a PhD program or any research project for that matter, one of the first things that you have to do is the literature review. When I first started carrying out the review, I found searching literature and organizing the readings to be excruciating. Where…
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Basic Network Analysis of High Tech Firms
At the Science, Business and Innovation department at VU Amsterdam, students frequently need to assess the strategies of various high tech firms. In this post, I will outline a basic toolkit that academic researchers can use to draw and analyze two basic networks of a…
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The Value of Citations
I attended the European Scientometrics Summer School last Sept. 16-23 in Berlin. For those not familiar with the field, scientometrics refer to the analysis of scientific publications through various statistical methods. As the amount of scientific output increase, scientometricians are needed to organize and make…
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