Does Academic Research Drive Industrial Innovation in Computer Architecture?—Analyzing Citations to Academic Papers in Patents

Examines the number of citations to papers published in International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), International Symposium on High- Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), and International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Given that these four conferences are the most prestigious in computer architecture, they are an excellent proxy for academic research as they likely contain the most innovative ideas. As such, papers from these conferences could provide important building blocks for a company’s patented inventions; if so, these papers should be cited in the company’s patents.