Quantifying Basic Research Contribution to Biomedical Firms' Scientific Output:A Perspective on Individual Publication Characteristics
As the foundation of core technologies,basic research has a significant impact on the development of high-tech companies.Therefore,basic research should be accurately identified and measured for its impact and mechanism to be ex-plored.This study uses the scientometric method based on the"Level Score"index,a quantitative index for measuring the basic level of a research paper,to quantify the basic research of firms in the biomedical field,which is a key development industry in China and abroad,thereby investigating the dependence between output and basic research.The results of this study show that:(1)Most biomedical firms need to conduct basic research to sustain their development,and a certain scale and strength are required to conduct both basic and applied research.Large biomedical firms have a more intensive distri-bution of average basic level papers,whereas smaller firms tend to publish more basic research papers.(2)Basic research type references are the main knowledge base of the papers published by biomedical firms which also rely on some applied research references,indicating that the research activities of biomedical firms are highly dependent on basic research.(3)The basic output type of biomedical firms depends on basic knowledge input and is thus less difficult to obtain applied out-put type from basic input than to generate basic type output from applied type input.
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