Seolmin Yang
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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
My research interests lie in technological innovation, with a biological perspective to explain its evolutionary characteristics.
My work explores the question by drawing on large-scale academic and patent data such as bibliographic information, citations, and researchers’ collaboration. My work focuses on unpacking the factors that contribute to successful innovation.
News
Feb, 2024 | Postdoctroal Fellow, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Jun 26, 2023 | Excited to present my work at the ICSSI poster session!
Skewed Funding for Basic Sciences: Unpacking the Basicness of NIH Grants
May 14, 2023 | My paper got published online in Scientometrics.
Yang, S. & Kim, S.Y. (2023). Knowledge-integrated research is more disruptive when supported by homogeneous funding sources: a case of US federally funded research in biomedical and life sciences. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04706-5
Jul 8, 2022 | Best Paper Award, Korea Society for Innovation Management & Economics
Jun, 2021 ~ May, 2022 | Ph.D. Dissertation fellowship, National Research Foundation of Korea
Dec, 2019 ~ Mar, 2020 | Visiting Predoctoral Fellow, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Recent Research Projects
Does Novelty Guarantee Future Success?
Geometrics of the adjacent possible: Harvesting values at the curvature
(with Hyejin Youn)
The study provides a quantitative framework for the present of the past to map the contours of areas where novel ideas arise in the presence of the power of typicality. The analysis uses US patents granted between 1976 and 2010.
Is More Always Better?
Knowledge-Integrated Research Is More Disruptive When Supported by Homogeneous Funding Sources: A Case of US Federally Funded Research in Biomedical and Life Sciences
(with So Young Kim)
The study demonstrates that a paper combining diverse research subjects disrupts sciences more when supported by government funding agencies within the same government department, using US federally funded papers between 1975 and 2005 in biomedical and life sciences.