Although researchers in Pasteur’s Quadrant are thought to be more productive, we lack comprehensive data on who they are, where they work, and how they impact both science and technology. We provide a new and publicly-available dataset that links the careers of scientists and U.S. inventors, providing large sample evidence that those working in “Pasteur’s Quadrant” produce more novel and highly cited science and technology. We describe the crosswalk of these individuals’ fields of science and classes of technology, institutional and organizational affiliations, consistently higher geographic concentration than pure scientists or pure inventors, and shift towards wealthy and western counties within the U.S..
Contact person: Marina Chugunova
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