TY - GEN
T1 - Mining changes in patent trends for competitive intelligence
AU - Shih, Meng Jung
AU - Liu, Duen-Ren
AU - Hsu, Ming Li
PY - 2008/6/10
Y1 - 2008/6/10
N2 - Obtaining sufficient competitive intelligence is a critical factor in helping business managers gain and maintain competitive advantages. Patent data is an important source of competitive intelligence that enterprises can use to gain a strategic advantage. Under existing approaches, to detect changes in patent trends, business managers must rely on comparing two patent analysis charts of different time periods, it requires human effort and time. In this paper, we propose a patent trend change mining (PTCM) technique that can identify changes in patent trends without the need for specialist knowledge. We apply the PTCM approach to Taiwan's semiconductor industry to discover changes in four types of patent trends: the R&D activities of a company, the R&D activities of the industry, company activities in the industry and industry activities generally. The change mining approach generates competitive intelligence to help managers develop appropriate business strategies based on their findings.
AB - Obtaining sufficient competitive intelligence is a critical factor in helping business managers gain and maintain competitive advantages. Patent data is an important source of competitive intelligence that enterprises can use to gain a strategic advantage. Under existing approaches, to detect changes in patent trends, business managers must rely on comparing two patent analysis charts of different time periods, it requires human effort and time. In this paper, we propose a patent trend change mining (PTCM) technique that can identify changes in patent trends without the need for specialist knowledge. We apply the PTCM approach to Taiwan's semiconductor industry to discover changes in four types of patent trends: the R&D activities of a company, the R&D activities of the industry, company activities in the industry and industry activities generally. The change mining approach generates competitive intelligence to help managers develop appropriate business strategies based on their findings.
KW - Change mining
KW - Competitive intelligence
KW - Patent trend
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=44649147670&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-68125-0_105
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-68125-0_105
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44649147670
SN - 3540681248
SN - 9783540681243
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 999
EP - 1005
BT - Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 12th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2008
Y2 - 20 May 2008 through 23 May 2008
ER -