Patent management tasks involve many stakeholders from diverse disciplines and
hierarchies as well as from inside and outside the organization. By drawing on the …

Digitalization is a strong driver in society, business, and science. Patent management,
especially the search for and analysis of patents, is also being shaped by digitalization …

Emerging science and technology fields are increasingly expected to provide solutions to
societal grand challenges. The promise of such solutions frequently underwrites claims for …

The evaluation of various innovation fields of an emerging technology as well as their
potential impact on a certain market, region, industry, or target group is a part of an …

In this paper we present a novel method which enables an early and direct detection of
technologies emerging from a mainstream technology due to technological speciation. This …

An extremely large corpus with rich acoustic properties is very useful for training new speech
recognition and semantic analysis models. However, it also brings some troubles, because …

To obtain patent protection, a patent must fulfill statutory patentability requirements
examined by a patent office. Such examinations are mostly performed manually and are …

Renewable energy management is critical for obtaining a significant number of practical
benefits. Wind energy is one of the most important sources of renewable energy. It is …

We apply content analysis on government documents containing ecological information
relevant to a significant ecological disturbance-mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreaks in the …

This paper proposes a new method for decomposing a technological domain (TD).
Specifically, the method identifies sub-TDs at the different levels of technological hierarchy …