Patent Overlay Mapping: Visualizing Technological Distance

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Patent Overlay Mapping Visualizing Technological
Distance

• Luciano Kay, Center for Nanotechnology in
  Society, University of California Santa Barbara,
  Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150, e-mail
  luciano_at_cns.ucsb.edu
• Nils Newman, Intelligent Information Services
  Corporation, e-mail newman_at_iisco.com
• Jan Youtie, Enterprise Innovation Institute and
  School of Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
  e-mail jan.youtie_at_innovate.gatech.edu
• Alan L. Porter, School of Public Policy, Georgia
  Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia and
  Search Technologies, Norcross Georgia, e-mail
  alan.porter_at_isye.gatech.edu
• Ismael Rafols Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), Universitat
  Politècnica de València, València, Spain SPRU
  Science and Technology Policy Research,
  University of Sussex, Brighton, England, e-mail
  i.rafols_at_ingenio.upv.es

This research was undertaken largely at Georgia
Tech drawing on support from the US National
Science Foundation (NSF) through the Center for
Nanotechnology in Society (Arizona State
University Award No. 0531194) and NSF Award
1064146 (Revealing Innovation Pathways Hybrid
Science Maps for Technology Assessment and
Foresight). Part of this research was also
undertaken in collaboration with the Center for
Nanotechnology in Society, University of
California Santa Barbara. The findings and
observations contained in this paper are those of
the authors and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the US National Science Foundation.
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Overlays of organisations (firms)
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Global patent map (2000-2006)
Combustion Engines
Vehicles
Catalysis Separation
Heating Cooling
Turbines Engines
Food
Electric Power
Plastics Wheels
Domestic appliances
Furnaces
Textiles
Medical Devices
Metals
Cosm Med Chem
Construction
Vehicle parts
Drugs Med Chem
Chem Polym
Lighting
Machine Tools
Measurement
Biologics
Lab equip
Med Instr
Data commerce
Semiconductors
Copying Prints
Photolithography
Info Transmission
Optics
Tel Comm
Computing
TV, Imaging Comm
Radio, Comm
Recording
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Patent overlay map Samsung
Catalysis Separation
Electric Power
Metals
Drugs Med Chem
Chem Polym
Biologics
Lab equip
Semiconductors
Photolithography
Optics
Recording
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Patent overlay map DuPont
Catalysis Separation
Electric Power
Textiles
Metals
Cosm Med Chem
Drugs Med Chem
Chem Polym
Measurement
Lab equip
Biologics
Copying Prints
Semiconductors
Photolithography
Optics
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Patent overlay map IBM
Catalysis Separation
Electric Power
Metals
Cosm Med Chem
Drugs Med Chem
Chem Polym
Biologics
Lab equip
Semiconductors
Photolithography
Optics
Computing
Radio, Comm
Recording
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Patent overlay map Philips
Catalysis Separation
Textiles
Metals
Chem Polym
Drugs Med Chem
Lighting
Lab equip
Med Instr
Semiconductors
Photolithography
Optics
Recording
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Overlays of research topics
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Patent overlay map Nano biosensors
Catalysis Separation
Electric Power
Medical Devices
Metals
Drugs Med Chem
Chem Polym
Biologics
Lab equip
Med Instr
Semiconductors
Copying Prints
Optics
Recording
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Patent overlay map Dye-sensitized solar cells
Electric Power
Metals
Chem Polym
Semiconductors
Copying Prints
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Patent overlay map Graphene
Catalysis Separation
Electric Power
Textiles
Metals
Chem Polym
Semiconductors
Optics