Patent mining indicates promising routes for research
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 08:24
in Mathematics & Economics
A group of researchers affiliated with the University of São Paulo (USP) campus in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, has used big data tools such as data mining and network analysis to develop a method to identify technological routes, trends and partnerships in any knowledge area. For this purpose, it collected information from patent databases around the world.