Understanding Trends in the Patent Domain

نویسندگان

  • Julia Maria Struß
  • Thomas Mandl
  • Michael Schwantner
  • Christa Womser-Hacker
چکیده

The proceeding globalization in combination with an increasing competition in research conducted at universities and other research institutes as well as in industry, emphasises the necessity of identifying trends at an early stage, not only in industry but by universities and governments. One of the resources to be considered are patents, as most of the information contained therein is not published anywhere else. The existing research focuses on the technical perspective of identifying trends in patents. This work addresses the user perspective of the problem, in particular the user’s working environments, understanding of trends, the underlying tasks and the user requirements regarding a trend mining system are examined.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014