Identifying technological competition trends for R&D planning using dynamic patent maps: SAO-based content analysis

Authors:
Janghyeok Yoon;Hyunseok Park;Kwangsoo Kim
Affiliations:
Department of Industrial Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea 143-701;Department of Technology and Innovation Management , Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea 790-784;Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea 790-784
Venue:
Scientometrics
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Patent maps showing competition trends in technological development can provide valuable input for decision support on research and development (R&D) strategies. By introducing semantic patent analysis with advantages in representing technological objectives and structures, this paper constructs dynamic patent maps to show technological competition trends and describes the strategic functions of the dynamic maps. The proposed maps are based on subject-action-object (SAO) structures that are syntactically ordered sentences extracted using the natural language processing of the patent text; the structures of a patent encode the key findings of the invention and expertise of its inventors. Therefore, this paper introduces a method of constructing dynamic patent maps using SAO-based content analysis of patents and presents several types of dynamic patent maps by combining patent bibliographic information and patent mapping and clustering techniques. Building on the maps, this paper provides further analyses to identify technological areas in which patents have not been granted ("patent vacuums"), areas in which many patents have actively appeared ("technological hot spots"), R&D overlap of technological competitors, and characteristics of patent clusters. The proposed analyses of dynamic patent maps are illustrated using patents related to the synthesis of carbon nanotubes. We expect that the proposed method will aid experts in understanding technological competition trends in the process of formulating R&D strategies.