Tracing the Evolution of Biomedical 3D Printing Technology Using Ontology-Based Patent Concept Analysis

Amy J.C. Trappey*, Charles V. Trappey, Kurt L.C. Lee

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摘要

Three-dimensional (3D) printing enables products to be custom-designed and produced using additive manufacturing processes. This research develops a patent analysis approach to explore biomedical 3D printing technology trends. First, the method searches for related patents. Second, frequently appearing key terms in patents are extracted as a means to identify key concepts of inventions. Third, in order to structure the domain knowledge, the ontology is created by referring to the relevant key terms and literature. The key terms create indexes used to measure similarities for clustering the patents and sub-technologies. Based on the patent context and dynamic patent concept analysis maps, the evolutionary trends of technology development are depicted. Biomedical 3D printing R&D projects are used as case examples to compare against co-occurring patent evolutions. The proposed patent concept analysis is generalisable for critical decision support of R&D planning and evaluation in any market sector.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)339-352
頁數14
期刊Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
29
發行號4
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 21 4月 2017

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