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I'm currently deputy head of economics at the University of Essex. I'm interested in the economics of new technologies and in particular the interaction with competition policy, licensing, and research and development.
I've got a new working paper on using expert evaluation to classify patents into thickets, then using latent semantic analysis to try to match the expert analysis. We can do this, with only some match to existing citations based methods of classifying patents into thickets. This is more a proof of concept than something definitive: more work would be needed to know exactly why the match is only moderate. This is now out in Research Policy!
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