Semantic analyses vs. IPC Co-classification analyses of patents: Which one better serves to anticipate converging industries?

2012 Proceedings of Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology: Technology Management for Emerging Technologies, PICMET'12

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 566-578

  Preschitschek, Nina ^a   Niemann, Helen ^b   Moehrle, Martin G ^b   Leker, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE PROCESS; IN-LINE; INDUSTRY CONVERGENCE; PATENT ANALYSIS; PERSONAL CARE SECTORS; QUANTITATIVE VALUES; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SMALL SAMPLES; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE; TECHNOLOGY FIELDS; VALUE CHAINS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SEMANTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84868029989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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