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As innovative technology is being developed at an accelerated rate, the identification of technology opportunities is especially critical for both companies and governments. Among various approaches to search for opportunities, one of the most frequently used is to discover technology opportunity from patent data. In line with it, this paper aims to propose a hybrid approach based on morphological analysis (MA) and unified structured inventive thinking (USIT) for technology opportunity discovery (TOD) through patent analysis using text mining and Word2Vec clustering analysis to explore the intrinsic links of innovation elements. A basic morphology matrix is constructed according to patent information and then is extended using the innovation algorithms that are reorganized from USIT. Technology opportunities are analyzed at two layers to generate new technical ideas. To illustrate the research process and validate its utility, this paper selects the technology of coalbed methane (CBM) extraction as a use case. This hybrid approach contributes by suggesting a semi-autonomous and systematic procedure to perform MA for TOD. By integrating the innovation algorithms, this approach improves the procedure of value extension in MA.

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We report frequency-locked resonant patterns induced by additive noise in periodically forced reaction-diffusion Brusselator model. In the regime of 2:1 frequency-locking and homogeneous oscillation, the introduction of additive noise, which is colored in time and white in space, generates and sustains resonant patterns of hexagons, stripes, and labyrinths which oscillate at half of the forcing frequency. Both the noise strength and the correlation time control the pattern formation. The system transits from homogeneous to hexagons, stripes, and to labyrinths successively as the noise strength is adjusted. Good frequency-locked patterns are only sustained by the colored noise and a finite time correlation is necessary. At the limit of white noise with zero temporal correlation, irregular patterns which are only nearly resonant come out as the noise strength is adjusted. The phenomenon induced by colored noise in the forced reaction-diffusion system is demonstrated to correspond to noise-induced Turing instability in the corresponding forced complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.