DocumentCode
1587168
Title
Structural Analysis of R & D Division from Patent Documents
Author
Iino, Yurie ; Yamada, Yasuhiro ; Hirokawa, Sachio
Author_Institution
Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ.
fYear
2008
Firstpage
423
Lastpage
428
Abstract
This paper describes a method to draw the network of inventors and their technology. It is based on the co-occurrence analysis of inventors of a company described in their patent documents. Empirical evaluation, using 16,375 cosmetic related patent documents, shows that the method discloses the structure of research and development activities of companies.
Keywords
electronic commerce; patents; research and development; R & D division; cooccurrence analysis; inventors; patent documents; structural analysis; Companies; Computer science; Information analysis; Information science; Information technology; Intellectual property; Mathematics; Research and development; Spatial databases; Technology management; co-inventor; concept graph; patent;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
e-Business Engineering, 2008. ICEBE '08. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Xi´an
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3395-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICEBE.2008.29
Filename
4690646
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