Discovering competitive intelligence by mining changes in patent trends

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2882-2890

  Shih, Meng Jung ^a   Liu, Duen Ren ^a   Hsu, Ming Li ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Change mining; Competitive intelligence; Knowledge discovery; Patent analysis

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MANAGERS; BUSINESS STRATEGY; CHANGE DETECTION; CHANGE MINING; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPUTER-BASED APPROACH; CRITICAL FACTORS; DECISION MAKERS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; PATENT ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES; TIME PERIODS;

COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; MANAGERS; MINING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SIGNAL DETECTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 71349086064     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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