利用功能分析方法找出專利的跨業應用

A Function-based Approach to Identifying Cross-sectoral Applications for Patents

許鴻英(Hong-Ieng Hoi)

指導教授 ： 魏志平

國立臺灣大學/管理學院/資訊管理學研究所/碩士(2013年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2013.10423

摘要

「跨業應用」是指和企業核心領域完全不同的應用。找出專利的跨業應用可以幫助企業持續創新而獲得更多利潤並且提升競爭力。但是要找出專利可以跨業應用的領域是一件很困難的項目，因為要尋找跨業應用的專家必須熟悉各個領域的技術、公司也需要投入大量的時間和金錢去做研發。
因此在這次研究中，我們將提出以功能分析為基礎的自動化系統Automatic Recommendation of Patent Cross-sectoral Application (ACROSS) 為企業有效率地找出專利的跨業應用領域。對於要尋找跨業應用的專利，ACROSS會找出和此專利不相同的應用領域來進行分析，如果某一應用領域的大部分專利和此專利在功能上是很相似的，這應用領域將有可能成為ACROSS推薦給此專利的跨業應用。最後的評估結果證明我們的系統是有足夠能力找出專利的跨業應用。

關鍵字

跨業應用 ； 跨業授權 ； 專利分析 ； 功能分析

並列摘要

Cross-sectoral application is applying technology to completely different industries from firm’s own business activities. Identifying cross-sectoral applications of patents can help firms to keep innovations to market for gaining profit and enhancing competitive advantage. However, it is a difficult task to discovery other domains which need this patent for improving its capacity or business efficiency. Moreover, identification of cross-sectoral applications for a patent only relies on the experts having abundant experiences in these different technical domains, and this process is usually time-consuming. So, in this study, we developed an automatic function-based recommendation system, called Automatic Recommendation of Patent Cross-sectoral Application (ACROSS), to discovery cross-sectoral applications for a given focal patent. The main idea of ACROSS is to consider application areas which are different from the ones of the focal patent and in which most patents have similar function with the focal patent as cross-sectoral applications. Therefore, we may recommend these cross-sectoral applications for the focal patent. The evaluation result suggests the proposed approach performs well in discovering cross-sectoral application.

並列關鍵字

cross-sectoral applications ； cross-sectoral out-licensing ； patent analysis ； functional analysis

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