Commercial Potential

What are these measures?

Commercial potential (compot) estimates how likely it is that a paper's knowledge will be picked up by industry — through patents, licensing deals, or product development. Think of it as the probability that a piece of research will eventually find its way into something you can buy. Papers that closely cite existing patents, cover topics adjacent to engineering applications, or appear in journals that industry actively monitors tend to score higher.

Scientific potential (scipot) captures the complementary dimension: how likely a paper is to seed future breakthroughs within science itself — regardless of commercial relevance. High-scipot papers are typically foundational, opening new questions rather than closing existing ones. They may not be commercially relevant for decades, if at all.

Why does this matter? Citation counts tell you a paper was noticed; compot and scipot tell you how it was noticed and by whom. A field with high compot but modest scipot is commercially mature — knowledge is being absorbed by industry. High scipot but low compot signals frontier science not yet close to application. Sweden's position on both dimensions reveals whether its ATMP research is driving toward the lab bench, the clinic, or the market.

Data source: Masclans, R., Hasan, S., & Cohen, W. M. (2025). Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science. Strategic Management Journal, 46(9), 2199–2236.
Compot: v3 release — full corpus coverage.
Scipot: v2 release only — this score was removed in v3. Expect reduced paper counts in scipot sections compared to compot.

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All ATMP papers — compot & scipot

Metric selector — sections below

Compot = commercial potential (v3, full coverage). Scipot = scientific potential (v2, reduced coverage).

Fundamental domains

Enabling domains

Trend — global vs Sweden

By country — top 30

Source: Masclans, R., Hasan, S., & Cohen, W. M. (2025). Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science. Strategic Management Journal, 46(9), 2199–2236. Compot: v3 release (full coverage). Scipot: v2 release (reduced coverage). Top 30 countries by total ATMP publication volume; countries with fewer than 50 scored papers excluded. A paper may be attributed to multiple countries.