Data-Driven Network Visualization for Innovation and Competitive Intelligence

Abstract

Technology positions of a firm may determine its competitive advantages and innovation opportunities. While a tangible understanding of the technology positions of a firm, i.e., the set of technologies the firm has mastered, can inform innovation and competitive intelligence, yet such positions are heterogeneous, intangible and difficult to analyze. Herein, we present a data-driven network visualization methodology to locate the knowledge positions of a firm as a subspace of the total technology space for innovation and competitive intelligence analytics. The total technology space is empirically constructed as a network map of all patent technology classes and can be overlaid with the knowledge positions of a firm according to its patent records. This paper demonstrates how to use the system to conduct historical, comparative and predictive analyses of the technology positions of individual and different firms. The methodology has been implemented into a cloud-based data-driven visual analytics system-InnoGPS.

Pengaruh Keterikatan Kecerdasan Kompetitif dalam Organisasi: Pengembangan Kerangka Konseptual

“…Organisasi yang sukses menggunakan pengetahuan teknologi dan pasar untuk mendapatkan keuntungan (Rakthin et al, 2016). Karena posisi teknologi suatu organisasi dapat ditentukan oleh keunggulan kompetitif dan peluang inovasinya, rangkaian teknologi yang akan dikuasai organisasi mencakup inovasi dan kinerja CI (Sarica et al, 2019). Penelitian Bisson &;Tang Tong (2018) memberikan bukti empiris untuk mempromosikan pelatihan dan adopsi teknologi di antara perusahaan untuk mencapai praktik CI yang lebih tinggi.…”

Impact of knowledge search practices on the originality of inventions: A study in the oil & gas industry through dynamic patent analysis

“…These valuables techniques help us better understand the nature of the knowledge search practices used by inventors to design new inventions and their occurrence in the global technological landscape. Furthermore, still based on patent analytics, scholars have also developed more applied research conducting analyses at firm level, in order to help a given firm identify what new knowledge components could be combined with their established knowledge to design new inventions (e.g., Nakamura et al, 2015;Sarica et al, 2019). Thus, the design of new inventions is closely related to a firm's knowledge base, whose structure matters in this regard.…”

Developing a competitive intelligence strategy model for South African life assurance industry

“…It is therefore essential to link technology intelligence to CI in sustaining competitiveness. This result shows that the technology position of an organisation determines its competitive advantage, innovation opportunities, and CI (Sarica et al, 2019).…”

“…Similarly, Koriyow and Karugu (2018) found that CI assisted in monitoring technology, customer base, competitors, ecology, suppliers and economics. This result implies that an organisation's technology position may determine its competitive advantage and innovation opportunities, so the set of technologies the organisation has mastered informs innovation and CI (Sarica et al, 2019). Tahmasebifard and Wright (2018) opined that technical information about competitors could impact a company's competitive advantage.…”