Most studies of academic patenting focus on the university as the unit of analysis. In contrast, we examine this phenomenon at the laboratory level. Based on a sample of 83 research laboratories of Louis Pasteur University (ULP, Strasbourg, France) from 1993 to 2000, we constructed a panel data...

This article presents a model allowing us compare the scientific production of universities on clear and explicit grounds. Such bilateral comparisons are then used to build dominance networks, rankings, and reference classes. The paper presents the results obtained for the main us research...

We introduce a measure of interdisciplinarity as the diversity of academic research production across scientific domains. Our dataset concerns more than 900 permanent researchers employed by a large French university which is ranked first among French universities in terms of impact. As expected...

[eng] This article presents an empirical study of the determinants of patent production by more than nine hundred researchers and teacher-researchers of the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. We show that patent production varies with age, career, publications, and laboratory funding...

This paper aims to demonstrate that the strategic approach to link formation can generate networks that share some of the main structural properties of most real social networks. For this purpose, we introduce a spatialized variation of the Connections model [Jackson, M.O., Wolinsky, A., 1996. A...

This paper develops a framework for studying social network formation. Partly built upon a formalism used in theoretical economics, the network formation process we introduce is locally driven by agents who maximize a given individual payoff function. We examine two simple models and observe the...