Patent overlay mapping: Visualizing technological distance

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2432-2443

  Kay, Luciano ^a   Newman, Nils ^b   Youtie, Jan ^c   Porter, Alan L ^c,d   Rafols, Ismael ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Intelligent Information Services Corporation   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Search Technologies   (United States)

^e INGENIO CSIC UPV Technical University of Valencia   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

information mapping; innovation; patents

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; INNOVATION; MAPPING; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

INFORMATION MAPPING; INTERNATIONAL PATENTS; OVERLAY MAPPINGS; PATENT DATUM; PATENTING ACTIVITIES; PATENTS; POLICY DECISIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL DISTANCE;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84930087871     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23146     Document Type: Article

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