Modeling Innovation Ecosystem Dynamics through Interacting Reinforced Bernoulli Processes
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| author | Aletti, Giacomo Crimaldi, Irene Ghiglietti, Andrea Nutarelli, Federico |
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| contents | Innovation is cumulative and interdependent: successful inventions build on prior knowledge within technological fields and may also affect success across related ones. Yet these dimensions are often studied separately in the innovation literature. This paper asks whether patent success across technological categories can be represented within a single dynamic framework that jointly captures within-category reinforcement, cross-category spillovers, and a set of aggregate regularities observed in patent data. To address this question, we propose a model of interacting reinforced Bernoulli processes in which the probability of success in a given category depends on past successes both within that category and across other categories. The framework yields joint predictions for success probabilities, cumulative successes, relative success shares, and cross-category dependence. We implement the model using granted US patent families from GLOBAL PATSTAT (1980-2018), defining category-specific success through a cohort-normalized forward-citation index. The empirical analysis shows that successful innovations continue to accumulate, but less than proportionally to the growth in patent opportunities, while technological categories remain interdependent without becoming homogeneous. Under a mean-field restriction, the model-based inferential exercise yields an estimated interaction intensity of 0.643, pointing to positive but non-maximal interaction across technological categories. |
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| spellingShingle | Modeling Innovation Ecosystem Dynamics through Interacting Reinforced Bernoulli Processes Aletti, Giacomo Crimaldi, Irene Ghiglietti, Andrea Nutarelli, Federico Applications Statistics Theory Innovation is cumulative and interdependent: successful inventions build on prior knowledge within technological fields and may also affect success across related ones. Yet these dimensions are often studied separately in the innovation literature. This paper asks whether patent success across technological categories can be represented within a single dynamic framework that jointly captures within-category reinforcement, cross-category spillovers, and a set of aggregate regularities observed in patent data. To address this question, we propose a model of interacting reinforced Bernoulli processes in which the probability of success in a given category depends on past successes both within that category and across other categories. The framework yields joint predictions for success probabilities, cumulative successes, relative success shares, and cross-category dependence. We implement the model using granted US patent families from GLOBAL PATSTAT (1980-2018), defining category-specific success through a cohort-normalized forward-citation index. The empirical analysis shows that successful innovations continue to accumulate, but less than proportionally to the growth in patent opportunities, while technological categories remain interdependent without becoming homogeneous. Under a mean-field restriction, the model-based inferential exercise yields an estimated interaction intensity of 0.643, pointing to positive but non-maximal interaction across technological categories. |
| title | Modeling Innovation Ecosystem Dynamics through Interacting Reinforced Bernoulli Processes |
| topic | Applications Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13364 |