Patent quality: Towards a systematic framework for analysis and measurement

K Higham, G De Rassenfosse, AB Jaffe - Research Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The quality of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to
measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often …

The rise of science in low-carbon energy technologies

K Hötte, A Pichler, F Lafond - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Successfully combating climate change will require substantial technological improvements
in Low-Carbon Energy Technologies (LCETs), but designing efficient allocation of R&D …

[HTML][HTML] Tracing the evolution of service robotics: Insights from a topic modeling approach

I Savin, I Ott, C Konop - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Taking robotic patents between 1977 and 2017 and building upon the topic modeling
technique, we extract their latent topics, analyze how important these topics are over time …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge for a warmer world: A patent analysis of climate change adaptation technologies

K Hötte, SJ Jee - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Technologies can help strengthen the resilience of our economy against existential climate-
risks. We investigate climate change adaptation technologies (CCATs) in US patents to …

Will AI solve the patent classification problem?

E Kamateri, M Salampasis, E Perez-Molina - World Patent Information, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper scrutinizes the act of patent classification as it is performed by specialists, namely
patent examiners, and currently supported by automated systems in patent offices for …

Technological topic analysis of standard-essential patents based on the improved Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model

C Tian, J Zhang, D Liu, Q Wang… - Technology Analysis & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are an important technological resource for firms in the
telecommunication industry. The utilisation of technological topic analysis to reveal the …

Early identification of important patents: Design and validation of citation network metrics

MS Mariani, M Medo, F Lafond - Technological forecasting and social …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the most challenging problems in technological forecasting is to identify as early as
possible those technologies that have the potential to lead to radical changes in our society …

Multilayer patent citation networks: A comprehensive analytical framework for studying explicit technological relationships

K Higham, M Contisciani, C De Bacco - Technological forecasting and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of patent citation networks as research tools is becoming increasingly
commonplace in the field of innovation studies. However, these networks rarely consider the …

Tracking innovation diffusion: AI analysis of large-scale patent data towards an agenda for further research

A Fredström, J Wincent, D Sjödin, P Oghazi… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in AI algorithms and computational power have led to opportunities for
new methods and tools. Particularly when it comes to detecting the current status of inter …

[HTML][HTML] Demand-pull, technology-push, and the direction of technological change

K Hötte - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper studies the impact of Demand-pull (DP) and Technology-push (TP) on growth,
innovation, and the factor bias of technological change in a two-layer network of input …