Patent Overlay Mapping: Visualizing Technological Distance

1. Patent Overlay Mapping: Visualizing Technological Distance Luciano Kay, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150, e-mail: luciano@cns.ucsb.edu Nils Newman, Intelligent Information Services Corporation, e-mail: newman@iisco.com Jan Youtie, Enterprise Innovation Institute and School of Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332 e-mail: jan.youtie@innovate.gatech.edu Alan L. Porter, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia and Search Technologies, Norcross Georgia, e-mail: alan.porter@isye.gatech.edu Ismael Rafols Ingenio (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain & SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, e-mail: i.rafols@ingenio.upv.es This research was undertaken largely at Georgia Tech drawing on support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (Arizona State University; Award No. 0531194); and NSF Award #1064146 (“Revealing Innovation Pathways: Hybrid Science Maps for Technology Assessment and Foresight”). Part of this research was also undertaken in collaboration with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California Santa Barbara. The findings and observations contained in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US National Science Foundation.

2. Overlays of organisations (firms)

3. Global patent map (2000-2006) Combustion Engines Catalysis & Separation Vehicles Heating &Cooling Turbines & Engines Food Electric Power Plastics & Wheels Domestic appliances Furnaces Medical Devices Textiles Metals Cosm & Med Chem Construction Vehicle parts Drugs Med Chem Chem & Polym Lighting Machine Tools Measurement Biologics Lab equip Med Instr Data commerce Semiconductors Copying & Prints Photolithography Info Transmission Optics Tel Comm Computing TV, Imaging & Comm Radio, Comm Recording

4. Patent overlay map: Samsung Catalysis & Separation Electric Power Metals Drugs Med Chem Chem & Polym Biologics Lab equip Semiconductors Photolithography Optics Recording

5. Patent overlay map: DuPont Catalysis & Separation Electric Power Textiles Metals Cosm & Med Chem Drugs Med Chem Chem & Polym Measurement Lab equip Biologics Copying & Prints Semiconductors Photolithography Optics

6. Patent overlay map: IBM Catalysis & Separation Electric Power Metals Cosm & Med Chem Drugs Med Chem Chem & Polym Biologics Lab equip Semiconductors Photolithography Optics Computing Radio, Comm Recording

7. Patent overlay map: Philips Catalysis & Separation Textiles Metals Chem & Polym Drugs Med Chem Lighting Lab equip Med Instr Semiconductors Photolithography Optics Recording

8. Overlays of research topics

9. Patent overlay map: Nano biosensors Catalysis & Separation Electric Power Medical Devices Metals Drugs Med Chem Chem & Polym Biologics Lab equip Med Instr Semiconductors Copying & Prints Optics Recording

10. Patent overlay map: Dye-sensitized solar cells Electric Power Metals Chem & Polym Copying & Prints Semiconductors

11. Patent overlay map: Graphene Catalysis & Separation Electric Power Textiles Metals Chem & Polym Semiconductors Optics