Daily Archives: 2006/09/27

Citation Networks Analysis for Patent Evaluation

Abstract Patent value varies by different means of evaluation methods. Due to the difficulties of evaluating patent value, methods of future patent value prediction are still rare. The research employs social networks analysis to analyze the citation information in patent citation networks. We introduce several factors (Effective size, constraint, efficiency, hierarchy from structural holes analysis; [...]

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