Category: ST&I indicators
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Twenty years of US nanopatenting: Maintenance renewal scoring as an indicator of patent value (FULL-TEXT)
This paper introduces a new measure of patent value – Maintenance Renewal Score (MRSc) – reflecting assignee valuing the patent by paying successive renewal fees. We generate MRSc’s for nanotechnology patents issued by the US Patent Office from 1999 through 2009, with US assignees and US inventors. Patenting increases over this period, coincident with increased…
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Research on Correlation Control of Subjective Patent Indicators Based on Progressive Constraint
Abstract Patent indicator evaluation is a relatively objective patent quality evaluation method recognized by academia. Some subjective patent indicators are often related, which to some extent interferes with the objectivity of patent evaluation. This study selects five commonly used subjective patent indicators that are directly related to the compilers of patent documents, which includes patent…
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Different approaches of bibliometric analysis for data analytics applications in non-profit organisations (FULL-TEXT)
Profitable companies that used data analytics have a double gain in cost reduction, demand prediction, and decision-making. However, using data analysis in non-profit organisations (NPOs) can help understand and identify more patterns of donors, volunteers, and anticipated future cash, gifts, and grants. This article presents a bibliometric study of 2673 to discover the use of…
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A hybrid approach to identify and forecast technological opportunities based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis (Full-Text)
The spring up of new & emerging technologies brings a lot of innovation opportunities for society, which enables technology opportunities analysis attracts increasing attention by both industry and academia recently. This study proposes a hybrid approach which integrates topic modeling, sentiment analysis, patent mining and expert judgment to identify technological topics and the potential development…