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University of Maryland researcher maps Southern Maryland’s innovation networks
Summary
Dr. Scott Dempelt of the University of Maryland presented a network-based method using patents and grants to map local innovation clusters and identify potential commercialization opportunities tied to the Navy and regional industries.
Dr. Scott Dempelt of the University of Maryland presented an innovation-network analysis to the Saint Mary's County Economic Development Commission on Dec. 17, showing how patent and research-grant data can reveal real-time links among inventors, companies and technologies in Southern Maryland.
Why it matters: Dempelt’s method maps people and organizations as nodes and their patent- and grant-based relationships as links. The approach aims to identify a network’s core and brokerage nodes so county staff can target specific individuals, firms and technologies for commercialization, licensing or local business development.
What Dempelt showed
Dempelt said conventional cluster analysis lags innovation because employment and industry code data are generated years after invention events. “If you’re in an innovation driven economy and you’re not getting…
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