Forecasting and Management of Technology

Roper, A. T.; Cunningham, Scott; Porter, Alan L.; Mason, Thomas W.; Rossini, Frederick D.; Banks, Jerry

doi:10.1002/9781118047989

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“…In particular, we compare them in terms of sustainable technology. Many researches for technology analysis were based on patent analysis [11][12][13]15,[27][28][29][30] because the patent contains complete results of developed technologies [2,31]. However, we cannot analyze the patent documents directly using statistical modeling.…”

Section: Statistical Approach To Patent Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[2,6,[23][24][25][26]. In this paper, we apply statistical modeling to technology analysis between the competitive companies of Stratasys and 3D Systems in 3D printing domain.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, it is difficult to assess the sustainability of a technology, and there are still no general measures to evaluate sustainability for technology [1]. In addition, sustainability is very important to the management of technology (MOT), and a company with sustainable technology is competitive in the markets [2]. Thus, most companies have tried to develop and keep the sustainable technologies in their areas.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…From the results of technology analysis between the competitors, we can manage technology efficiently for technological sustainability between competitors, because sustainable technology is a key factor in MOT within a company [27,35,[45][46][47]. Sustainability is a very important issue in technology management area [2]. A company finds and understands its sustainable technology to improve its technological competition.…”

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“…In our research, we use R data language and its packages "tm", "sna", and "dtw" for patent analysis based on the proposed methodology [33,36,43,[48][49][50]. We also collect the patent document data by searching from world patent databases [2,31,51,52]. The step-by-step procedures of proposed methodology are shown below.…”

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Statistical Technology Analysis for Competitive Sustainability of Three Dimensional Printing

Park

Jun

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The technology of three-dimensional (3D) printing was commercialized in the late 1980s. Since then, the development of this technology has been dramatically increasing. Moreover, 3D printing technology has been used in many different fields, such as electronics and medical appliances, because 3D printing is a technological convergence based on precision instruments, chemical materials, and electrical equipment. The technological impact of 3D printing is so powerful that we need to analyze 3D printing technology to understand the 3D printing industry. In addition, we want more analytical results for understanding the sustainability of 3D printing technology. Thus, we compare the technologies between 3D printing competitors to find their technological innovations and evolution from a technological sustainability. To analyze the 3D printing technology, we propose a new methodology of statistical technology analysis combing social network analysis with time series clustering. In our case study, we make a comparison between "3D Systems" and "Stratasys", two major 3D printing companies, because they have been leading the sustainable technologies of 3D printing in the market. We illustrate how the proposed methodology can be applied to practical problems from the case study. This paper contributes to the sustainable technology management, and our research can expand to other competitors with diverse technological fields as well as 3D printing.

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Section: Statistical Approach To Patent Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[2,6,[23][24][25][26]. In this paper, we apply statistical modeling to technology analysis between the competitive companies of Stratasys and 3D Systems in 3D printing domain.…”

Section: Statistical Approach To Patent Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%