Investigation of Strategic Changes Using Patent Co-Inventor Network Analysis: The Case of Samsung Electronics

Choi, Sungchul; Park, Hyunseok

doi:10.3390/su8121315

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“…Second, Adobe's network density was 0.002 and 0.001 in 1988-2010 and 1988-2018, respectively, which was very low. The value of 0.002 in the period of 1988-2010 is similar to Samsung's network density examined in 2016 (Choi and Park, 2016), and this value is a very common phenomenon in a large organization. Adobe has worked on diverse business units patents.…”

Section: The Dynamics Of Adobe Organization: An Inventor Networksupporting

confidence: 73%

“…The degree centrality of an inventor is the count of the direct connections between the focal inventor and other co-inventors in the network. An inventor or inventor's group with a high degree centrality can secure considerable reliability of information and is a highly influential actor in a network (Choi and Park, 2016 Table 7 enlists the top 10 designers in order of number of patent at Adobe, with the hope that we might discover designers with active and core roles in the organization. It is interesting to see that some inventors have higher degree centrality regardless of their number of patent applications.…”

Section: The Dynamics Of Adobe Organization: An Inventor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Measure of Design M&As: Exploratory investigations of IP analysis in design

Kim

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2019

Strategic Design Research Journal

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Despite active participation of design firms in M&A markets, there has been little research measuring the value of design M&As. It is partially due that design has been seen to be an intangible asset. This paper seeks to the understanding of the value of design M&As and provides a possible metric for measuring the value using patent analysis. The value of design M&A was investigated at two levels: Design as differentiator (i.e., new product development) and Design as coordinator or integrator (i.e., organizational growth). The evolution of patenting quantity (e.g., the number of design patent applications, Locarno classes) and quality (e.g., forward citation, co-inventor networks) in pre-and post-acquisition deals was suggested. We conducted a case study using the design and utility patents of Adobe Systems Inc. The results show the dynamics of innovation area and the presence of the high values of inventors holding design-tech linkage, which could be a potential intangible source of company growth. This study further provides implications for companies which might consider design M&As as new ways of design investment.

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Section: The Dynamics Of Adobe Organization: An Inventor Networksupporting

confidence: 73%

Section: The Dynamics Of Adobe Organization: An Inventor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measure of Design M&As: Exploratory investigations of IP analysis in design

Kim

Kim²

2019

Strategic Design Research Journal

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“…They are also seen as one of the data sources that are capable of assessing technological capabilities of competitors [32]. Several papers agreed that patterns of innovation activities can be identified by using the "patent information" at the national level [33] and on a firm level [23].…”

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Effects of Clean Air Act on Patenting Activities in Chemical Industry: Learning from Past Experiences

Durmuşoğlu

2017

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Abstract:The chemical industry provides essential goods we use in our daily lives and key ingredients for many diverse industries. On the other hand, their production and use require serious attention while they may be seriously harmful to local air quality. The Clean Air Act (CAA) and its subsequent amendments regulate the emissions of hazardous air pollutants to protect public health and welfare in the U.S.A. since 1970. This study aimed to assess the impact of CAA on the rate of patenting in the chemical industry. With this in mind, basic chemical utility patents were analyzed to detect the effects of CAA on the patenting activities. Subsequent to the fitting of the ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) model (producing the least square of errors), a significant outlier was detected with the Dixon's r22 Ratio Test. This outlier was the number of patents granted in 1972. Contextual queries in the text of those patent documents have shown that there was a considerable increase in the patents of chemistry which takes the sustainability relevant terms (air, emission, pollution, etc.) into consideration. It was concluded that companies in the chemistry industry adapted themselves very rapidly to the changes and CAA was an important incentive to create novel technologies.

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“…The SAO structure is also appropriate for representing contents in a document from a functional view [13,16,17]. Recently, many studies have used text mining techniques for automated content analysis and product design [13,[18][19][20]. The use of the SAO structure is advantageous in text mining for analyzing massive amounts of technological document data or web data, and has been adopted in various studies such as trend analysis, technology analytics, and patent analysis.…”

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SAO-Based Semantic Mining of Patents for Semi-Automatic Construction of a Customer Job Map

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Abstract:The Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI) method based on the 'Jobs-to-be-done' concept is very useful in the identification of unmet customer needs and has been adopted widely in the industry. The Job Map, a tool of the ODI method, is used to understand customers by defining their behavioral process. Complications must be overcome before the Job Map can be applied to the specific problem in question, such as a time-consuming process, dealing with a large amount of data, and experts' biased work. To solve these problems, this study develops a patent mining-based method based on the subject-action-object (SAO) structure to support the creation of a Job Map by semi-automatizing data collection and analysis. This effort at better utilizing computers in customer analysis for product design will contribute to expanding computerized methods for solving design and engineering problems in practice.

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Investigation of Strategic Changes Using Patent Co-Inventor Network Analysis: The Case of Samsung Electronics

Cited by 17 publications

References 36 publications

Measure of Design M&As: Exploratory investigations of IP analysis in design

Measure of Design M&As: Exploratory investigations of IP analysis in design

Effects of Clean Air Act on Patenting Activities in Chemical Industry: Learning from Past Experiences

SAO-Based Semantic Mining of Patents for Semi-Automatic Construction of a Customer Job Map

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