Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time

May 12, 2023

also the economist :

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/01/04/papers-and-patents-are-becoming-less-disruptive

the NYT also had a write-up about this recently (linked below). Although it’s interesting, sometimes ‘disruptive’ science is over-hyped and over-valued, whereas incremental science can be under-appreciated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/science/science-breakthroughs-disruption.html

but it is an interesting paper recently published:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x