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The development of inventions is theorized as a process of searching andrecombining existing knowledge components. Previous studies under this theoryhave examined myriad characteristics of recombined knowledge and theirperformance implications. One feature that has received much attention istechnological knowledge age. Yet, little is known about how the age ofscientific knowledge influences the impact of inventions, despite the widelyknown catalyzing role of science in the creation of new technologies. Here weuse a large corpus of patents and derive features characterizing how patentstemporally search in the scientific space. We find that patents that citescientific papers have more citations and substantially more likely to becomebreakthroughs. Conditional on searching in the scientific space, referencingmore recent papers increases the impact of patents and the likelihood of beingbreakthroughs. However, this positive effect can be offset if patents citepapers whose ages exhibit a low variance. These effects are consistent acrosstechnological fields.

Temporal search in the scientific space predicts breakthrough inventions