Identifying R&D partners for dye-sensitized solar cells: a multi-level patent portfolio-based approach |
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Authors: | Xuefeng Wang Rongrong Li Ying Huang Pingping Ma |
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Institution: | 1. School of Management &2. Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China;3. School of Economic &4. Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, People’s Republic of China;5. Department of Public Administration, Hunan University, People’s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | There is a great and urgent necessity for appropriate data and methods to help organisations select appropriate R&D (Research and Development) partners. In response, this study presents a structured framework for identifying and selecting the R&D partners with the greatest potential to meet a given technological need. The formal methods in the framework include systematic information collection, patent portfolio analysis, technological similarity screening, and semantic evaluation that views subject-action-object (SAO) sentence structures as problem-solution patterns. The results of an empirical evaluation, with dye-sensitive solar cells as the case, demonstrate that using this framework can reveal more appropriate R&D partners for technological needs (TNS) in less time and with less cost than methods based solely on one criterion. |
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Keywords: | R& D partner technology similarity patent portfolio dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) |
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