An analysis of 45 million academic papers and 4 million patents has shown innovation is slowing and a change in research culture is crucial.
The belief that we are living in an era of ever-increasing innovation and disruption has been turned on its head by a study published in the prestigious journal,While last century saw an unprecedented expansion of scientific and technological knowledge, the study showed genuinely innovative activity is slowing.
“Studies in specific fields, such as semiconductors, have shown a decline in innovation. There are suggestions that drugs aren’t as groundbreaking as they once were and commentators have suggested Nobel Prize-winning papers aren’t as revolutionary as they were in the past. Others suggest the growing burden of knowledge that scientists are required to command, obliges them to spend more time training than pushing the boundaries of science.
Their study draws exclusively on academic publications and patents. It does not reflect creative and inventive change on the ground, which is often service-based.While new organisational and best management practices might not get patented or academically published, Park says some of their backend technologies might be. For example, he suggests Zoom probably has patents for technologies behind the services it provides.
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