Subjects: Library Science,Information Science >> Information Science submitted time 2023-04-01 Cooperative journals: 《图书情报工作》
Abstract: [Purpose/significance] Major scientific discoveries are of great significance to promote scientific and technological progress and enhance influence. Exploring the knowledge structuring and value realization path of major scientific discoveries can provide important enlightenments for deepening the reform of scientific research system in China. [Method/process] Taking the invention patents of Japanese Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine as research objects, by analyzing the data of the patent application time, the number of applications, maintenance time, the number of inventors and ownership status, this paper revealed the regular characteristics of structuring knowledge and realizing commercial and social value in the patent system. [Result/conclusion] The formation of major scientific discoveries is the unity of continuity and discontinuity, the unity of quantitative change and qualitative change and the unity of technological accumulation and technological revolution. The openness of patents can promote the structure, openness and socialization of knowledge represented by major scientific discoveries, and feed back to the improvement of the whole discipline and social public welfare.