An ongoing interest in innovation studies is to understand how knowledge generated from scientific research can be used in the development of technologies. While previous inquiries have devoted to studying the scientific capacity of technologies and institutional factors facilitating technology transfer, little is known about the intrinsic characteristics of scientific publications that gain direct technological impact. Here we focus on two features, namely basicness and novelty. Using a corpus of 3.8 million papers published between 1980 and 1999, we find that basic science papers and novel papers are substantially more likely to achieve direct technological impact. Further analysis that limits to papers with technological impact reveals that basic science and novel science have more patent citations, experience shorter time lag, and have impact in broader technological fields.

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生物医学研究的技术影响：基础性和新颖性的作用

对创新研究的持续兴趣是了解科学研究产生的知识如何用于技术开发。虽然之前的调查致力于研究技术的科学能力和促进技术转让的制度因素，但对获得直接技术影响的科学出版物的内在特征知之甚少。在这里，我们关注两个特征，即基本性和新颖性。使用 1980 年至 1999 年间发表的 380 万篇论文的语料库，我们发现基础科学论文和新颖论文更有可能产生直接的技术影响。对具有技术影响力论文的进一步分析表明，基础科学和新科学有更多的专利引用，经历更短的时间滞后，