A new approach to predicting technology product lifecycle transitions
Beyond statistical research on patent databases for the purpose of identifying global economic trends, an even more interesting application of patent analysis is the search for indicators associated to a given sector. In particular, since patents are a priori a reflection of innovation, the corresponding indicators need to reflect the latter’s economic models, in particular [...]
On the organizational side of intangible assets
I just came across a short insightful Harvard Business Review blog paper from Pr. Robert J. Thomas assessing collaboration as an intangible asset. Intangible assets is what buy-side analysts are focusing upon – they crave for innovation, but how do you measure that in advance to support your investment decisions? Pr. Thomas suggests to measure [...]
Patent analytics applications
In the last two decades, patent analytics methods have been developed, initially in the field of econometrics to measure R&D and technology innovation performance in different industry sectors and at national level, and now also at the corporate level, as they enable to better: Scope internal R&D projects as well as open innovation collaborations, by formally [...]