GAO Daobin, LI Zhijie, WU Hong
Competitive Intelligence.
2024, 20(4):
18-29.
This article fully utilizes the information of patent applications and rights holders contained in patent literature, and constructs an effective method for identifying technological opportunities from the perspective of patent applicants/patent holders, providing decision-making support for innovative entities to carry out technological innovation activities. Firstly, using invention applications and authorized inventions as data sources and based on the LDA model to explore potential technical topics, by cross judging the attention of patent applicants from enterprises and research institutes in recent years, identify technology opportunities with great development potential, and classify them into subject focused, market transformation, and R&D potential types. Secondly, using valid patents as the data source, by introducing patent strength indicators based on patent portfolio analysis methods, the primary driving entities of various types of technological opportunities are identified, and the technical competition elements of representative primary driving entities are analyzed in detail. In the empirical part, taking intelligent connected vehicles as an example, a total of 9 technological opportunities were identified, including 3 main focus, 3 market transformation, and 3 research and development potential each, with enterprises as the primary driving force.The results indicate that based on the cross trend of the number of invention applications by the “patent applicant/patentee” subject and the patent intensity of the two types of subjects, different types of technological opportunities with great development potential can be identified, and their market competition intensity can be judged, providing a new perspective for identifying technological opportunities.