A Concept for the Exploratory Visualization of Patent Network Dynamics

Florian Windhager, Albert Amor-Amorós, Michael Smuc, Paolo Federico, Lukas Zenk, Silvia Miksch

2015

Abstract

Patents, archived as large collections of semi-structured text documents, contain valuable information about historical trends and current states of R&D fields, as well as performances of single inventors and companies. Specific methods are needed to unlock this information and enable its insightful analysis by investors, executives, funding agencies, and policy makers. In this position paper, we propose an approach based on modelling patent repositories as multivariate temporal networks, and examining them by the means of specific visual analytics methods. We illustrate the potential of our approach by discussing two use-cases: the determination of emerging research fields in general and within companies, as well as the identification of inventors characterized by different temporal paths of productivity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Windhager F., Amor-Amorós A., Smuc M., Federico P., Zenk L. and Miksch S. (2015). A Concept for the Exploratory Visualization of Patent Network Dynamics . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-088-8, pages 268-273. DOI: 10.5220/0005360002680273

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp15,
author={Florian Windhager and Albert Amor-Amorós and Michael Smuc and Paolo Federico and Lukas Zenk and Silvia Miksch},
title={A Concept for the Exploratory Visualization of Patent Network Dynamics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={268-273},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005360002680273},
isbn={978-989-758-088-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - A Concept for the Exploratory Visualization of Patent Network Dynamics
SN - 978-989-758-088-8
AU - Windhager F.
AU - Amor-Amorós A.
AU - Smuc M.
AU - Federico P.
AU - Zenk L.
AU - Miksch S.
PY - 2015
SP - 268
EP - 273
DO - 10.5220/0005360002680273