Is the commercialisation of scientific research affecting the production of public knowledge?: Global trends in the output of corporate research articles
Is the commercialisation of scientific research affecting the production of public knowledge?: Global trends in the output of corporate research articles
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科学研究的商业化是否影响公共知识的生产？：企业研究文章产出的全球趋势
DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2003.11.002
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发表时间：
2004
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
["R. Tijssen
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作者：
["R. Tijssen
从近年来缩减研究实验室规模的大型研发活跃公司来看，企业研究似乎越来越多地作为一种经济资产进行管理，主要由市场力量驱动并受知识产权战略支配。这一发展是否显着影响了行业的基础研究以及与公共部门研究界的互动？本文探讨了企业科学信息来源不发达的全球趋势：他们在国际科学和技术期刊上发表的研究文章。对 1996 年至 2001 年发表的约 290,000 篇企业研究文章的统计分析表明，与专利申请和研究文献专利引用的大幅增加相反，列出企业部门作者附属地址的研究文章数量稳步下降，特别是那些完全由工业研究人员撰写的文章。对生物制药行业和半导体行业趋势的更详细分析显示了与其创新流程细节相关的特定行业的出版趋势和模式。总体而言，这些观察结果提供了事实证据，表明企业研究正处于持续的结构变革过程中，其特点是更加强调内部研究成果的挪用和商业化。
Judging by the large R&D-active companies that have slimmed down their research labs in recent years, it would seem that corporate research is increasingly managed as an economic asset that is predominantly driven by market forces and ruled by IPR strategies. Has this development significantly affected industry’s basic research and interactions with research communities in the public sector? This paper examines the global trends in an underdeveloped source of information on corporate science: their research articles published in the international scientific and technical journals. Statistical analysis of some 290,000 corporate research articles published in 1996–2001 indicate that, contrary to large increases in patenting and growth in patent citations to research literature, the numbers of research articles that list author affiliate addresses in the corporate sector have declined steadily, especially for those articles authored exclusively by industrial researchers. More detailed analysis of trends in the bio-pharmaceuticals sector and semiconductors sector show sector-specific publication trends and patterns related to specifics of their innovation processes. Overall, these observations provide factual evidence indicating that corporate research is in an on-going process of structural change characterised by a stronger emphasis on the appropriation and commercialisation of in-house research results.