Using patents prospectively to identify emerging, high-impact technological clusters

Research and development: Bibliometric analysis of knowledge flows of Brazilian research 2005–2009

“…Thus, the results suggest that the relevance of European research is declining relatively-at fastest rate of any major global region -for Brazilian research, whereas the U.S. is able to maintain its relevance. This is supports research that has demonstated that U.S. research literature and patents are receiving citations at higher rate than European, indicating that the quality -or relevance -of European research and technology trails that of American [18,19]. At country level, European declines show big variation: the share of UK has declined only 1 %, whereas Germany almost 8%, France almost 13 and Italy 6.…”

The Emerging Clusters Model: A tool for identifying emerging technologies across multiple patent systems

“…Clusters with high scores on these characteristics have been shown to be particularly likely to describe emerging technologies (Chang and Breitzman, 2009). The model therefore scores the next generation clusters in each time period based on these characteristics, and the highest scoring clusters are defined as the 'emerging clusters' for that time period.…”

“…Earlier generations of the Emerging Clusters Model have been discussed in previous papers (Thomas and Breitzman, 2006;Chang and Breitzman, 2009). Those earlier generations of the model were largely exploratory, and covered limited patent systems and time periods.…”

Discovering and assessing fields of expertise in nanomedicine: a patent co-citation network perspective

“…Even patent trolling can be viewed as a form of market intermediation and legitimate income seeking in the knowledge economy (McDonough III 2006). Therefore, for a given technological sector, increases in metrics such as the patent count, forward citations, backward citations, NPRs and claims can be viewed as indicators of closeness to the commercialization stages (Breitzman and Mogee 2002;Nerkar and Shane 2007;Chang and Breitzman 2009;Cheng et al 2010). Furthermore, it would be interesting to study whether growth or slowdown in the overall number of patents granted is accompanied by similar growths or slowdowns in the number of backward citations and NPRs.…”