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

Technological forecasting (TF) has significantly benefited from data analytics over the past
decades. However, little effort has been made to present an overview of data analytics in TF …

Predicting the crowd flow in various areas of the city is of strategic importance for traffic
control and public safety. In recent years, crowd flow prediction based on spatio-temporal …

Unstructured data in the form of digitized text is rapidly increasing in volume, accessibility,
and relevance for research on innovation and beyond. While traditional attempts to analyze …

The text-based patent analysis is grounded in information extraction technique. However,
such technique suffers from obvious defects such as low degree of automation and …

Patent maps are an effective means of discovering potential technology opportunities.
However, this method has been of limited use in practice since defining and interpreting …

Patents constitute an up-to-date source of competitive intelligence in technological
development; thus, patent analysis has been a vital tool for identifying technological trends …

In the competitive business environment, early identification of technological opportunities is
crucial for technology strategy formulation and research and development planning. There …

Patent maps showing competition trends in technological development can provide valuable
input for decision support on research and development (R&D) strategies. By introducing …

Technology transfer is one of the most important mechanisms for acquiring knowledge from
external sources to secure innovative and advanced technologies in high-tech industries …