{"590056":{"#nid":"590056","#data":{"type":"news","title":"John Walsh Quoted in New York Times Article","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Walsh was recently quoted in a New York Times article on patents and\u0026nbsp;inventors ages.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Similarly, professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Hitotsubashi University in Japan, who studied data about patent holders, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.prism.gatech.edu\/~jwalsh6\/inventors\/WhoWalshNagaoka090707FinalUS.pdf\u0022\u003Efound\u003C\/a\u003E that, in the United States, the average inventor sends in his or her application to the patent office at age 47, and that the highest-value patents often come from the oldest inventors \u0026mdash; those over the age of 55.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn P. Walsh, one of the professors, joked that the Patent Office should give a \u0026ldquo;senior discount\u0026rdquo; because \u0026#39;there\u0026rsquo;s clear evidence that people with seniority are making important contributions to invention.\u0026#39; \u0026quot; - Pagan Kennedy\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/07\/opinion\/sunday\/to-be-a-genius-think-like-a-94-year-old.html?_r=0\u0022\u003ERead the full article here\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis recent work that was cited\u0026nbsp;includes studies of university-industry linkages in the US and Japan, the effects of research tool patents on biomedical researchers and country and industry differences in the role of patents in firm strategy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"John Walsh was recently quoted in a New York Times article on patents and inventors ages. "}],"uid":"32864","created_gmt":"2017-04-07 20:18:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-07 20:23:27","author":"Ryan McDonnell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"332881":{"id":"332881","type":"image","title":"John Walsh","body":null,"created":"1449245133","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:05:33","changed":"1475895044","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:44","alt":"John Walsh","file":{"fid":"200414","name":"johnwalsh.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnwalsh_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/johnwalsh_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10025,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/johnwalsh_0.jpg?itok=GpEAhUrt"}}},"media_ids":["332881"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}