Knowledge Lab

The wisdom of polarized crowds

Study of more than 200,000 Wikipedia pages finds that collaborations which bridge the political spectrum produce higher quality work.
Skill discrepancies between research, education and jobs reveal the critical need to supply soft skills for the data economy

Here we analyze and visualize the dynamic skill (mis-)alignment between academia, industry and educational offerings.
Team expansion and paradigm stabilization: large teams develop science and technology, small teams disrupt it

We analyzed teamwork from more than 65 million papers, patents and software products over 100 years.
Improving the allocation of biomedical research resources with big data

Here, we present a health research opportunity index (health ROI) to measure the misalignment of biomedical needs and resources.

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Coevolution of Organizations and Ideas: Knowledge Creation and Transmission

Lynne G. Zucker
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Peer Review

Nearly all new discoveries, findings, theories and scientific speculations are filtered through peer evaluation.
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Idea Generativity

What makes some ideas long-lived and highly generative?
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Representations of Knowledge

Over history, major discoveries have often been marked by new, frequently ingenious, methods of representing knowledge...
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Representations of Knowledge

Lives of Concepts

This project aims to develop methods of tracking how concepts emerge, are disseminated, stabilize and decay across different...
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Lives of Concepts

Mode and Tempo in Technological Evolution: innovation, extinction, and the dynamics of technological

Michael Alfaro
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