• 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