About the Authors

Jan Kinne

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Kinne, David Lenz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jan.kinne@zew.de

Affiliations Department of Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, ZEW Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany, Department of Geoinformatics Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, istari.ai, Mannheim, Germany

David Lenz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Kinne, David Lenz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations istari.ai, Mannheim, Germany, Department of Econometrics and Statistics, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors DL and JK founded and are employed by istari.ai. Istari.ai develops a “InnoProb” innovation prediction service based on the methodology presented in this article. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.