@mayadurvasula, from our first batch of i3open - the Innovation Information Initiative Fellows, is back for a 3rd time to show that the performance of commercial LLMs (gpt-4o) can be matched by retraining open\simpler models (BERT) with a small sample of commercial encodings

Satyaki Chakravarty (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano) has created a dataset of patents (and applications) in India, which are undercounted in commonly-used sources. finds increasing geographic diversity of patents in India, a surge in Mumbai, and huge growth in

thanks everyone for making the 2024 i3open - the Innovation Information Initiative technical working group so fun. none of this would have been possible without the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. if you would like to join our email list for updates, go here ➡️mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listin…⬅️

one last (I promise!) update from i3open - the Innovation Information Initiative's big weekend: ➡️the 2025 batch of i3 Fellows⬅️ funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Fellows receive a stipend and attend i3 Technical Working Group Meetings. we seek Ph.D students engaged in open datasets. here is this year's

Releasing an open dataset based on Michaël Bikard's dissertation regarding "idea twins." David Hsu and I scaled up his algorithm to the entire Web of Science, scraping Google Scholar to detect adjacent co-citation in PDFs. Here's the server farm in my basement 1/

I'm looking forward to this! We’re hosting lots of innovation data on the i3open - the Innovation Information Initiative BigQuery repo. Join us on Feb 21st for our first webinar. Roger Masclans (Roger Masclans) will cover efficient querying, cost optimization, and key use cases. Register here cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

70+ people registered for the first i3open - the Innovation Information Initiative Upskilling session this Friday! Can we hit triple digits? cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

starting in about an hour! not too late to register

let us know what topics we should cover at the next Upskilling session

update: unclear that the patentsview site will come down today (no formal announcement yet), but just in case we've posted all data from the 12/31/2024 release. details here: linkedin.com/posts/mattmarx…

Quick update regarding PatentsView metadata: the final datasets, including granted, pre-grant and beta tables, are now available on the I3 BigQuery data repository. Link: console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?ws=!1… Join our mailing group: groups.google.com/g/i3-bigquery

brief update: we just received word that the PatentsView contract has been renewed for an additional year, starting tomorrow. I'm not sure what will happen next year, but for now the data will continue to be updated.