Patrick Herron

Patrick Herron
Research Analyst & Technologist
Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society, Duke University
CNS Affiliation
Extramural Collaborator
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Patrick Herron is Research Analyst & Technologist for the Jenkins Chair for New Technologies in Society. Patrick's responsibilities in support of the Chair cover a broad range of research and development roles. His current research focuses upon text mining-based innovation analyses with a particular interest in the impact of collaboration, state policy, globalization and financialization on global nanotechnology diffusion, biomedical device histories, memetic genealogies, and the rapidly changing nature of human "reading" resulting from the recent dramatic evolution and diffusion of retrieval and text mining technologies.

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Global nanotechnology diffusion, biomedical device histories, memetic genealogies, and the rapidly changing nature of human "reading" resulting from the recent dramatic evolution and diffusion of retrieval and text mining technologies.