Technological opportunity discovery for technological convergence based on the prediction of technology knowledge flow in a citation network

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Highlights：

• This paper proposes a quantitative future-oriented approach to technological opportunity discovery for convergence using patent information.

• The proposed approach predicts potential technological knowledge flows between heterogeneous fields.

• The technological opportunities between biotechnology and information technology are used to illustrate the proposed method.

• This paper identifies technological opportunities for convergence with direction and strength of potential knowledge flows.

摘要

•This paper proposes a quantitative future-oriented approach to technological opportunity discovery for convergence using patent information.•The proposed approach predicts potential technological knowledge flows between heterogeneous fields.•The technological opportunities between biotechnology and information technology are used to illustrate the proposed method.•This paper identifies technological opportunities for convergence with direction and strength of potential knowledge flows.

论文关键词：Technological opportunity discovery,Technological convergence,Link prediction,Patent citation analysis

论文评审过程：Received 10 March 2018, Revised 21 September 2018, Accepted 21 September 2018, Available online 12 October 2018, Version of Record 12 October 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.09.007