Identifying potentially commercially
disruptive technologies
Peter Evans
Senior Analyst
Need to identifying emerging technology
Current emerging tech work/new approach
• Benson CL, Magee CL (2015) Quantitative Determination of Technological
Improvement from Patent Data
• Carley SF, Newman NC, Porter AL, Garner JG (2017) A measure of staying
power: Is the persistence of emergent concepts more significantly influenced
by technical domain or scale?, Scientometrics
• Erdi P, Makovi K, Somogyvari Z, Tobochnik J, Volf P, Zalanyi L (2012)
“Prediction of emerging technologies based on analysis of the US patent
citation network” Scientometrics (2013)
• Daim T, Rueda G, Martin H, Gerdsri P (2005) “Forecasting emerging
technologies: Use of bibliometrics and patent analysis”
• Buchanan B, Corken R (2010) Disruptive technology: a toolkit,
The seven basic plots
• Overcoming the monster
• Rags to Riches
• The Quest
• Voyage and Return
• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Rebirth
Booker, C. (2004). The Seven Basic Plots: Why we tell stories. Continuum.
Our question
Can the patenting behaviour surrounding
historically ground breaking products be
used to identify ground breaking,
disruptive or emerging technologies?
The ground breaking products
Back stories
Clustering
Data Total patent applications/granted
Applicant type
Holdings
Existing/new applicants
Inventors
Family
Citations
IPC
Unclassifiable IPC
• Ground breaking
technology area
• Ground breaking
applicant
• 400 + variables
Next steps
1. Identify variables synonymous within the ground
breaking technology groups
2. Group patent data into technology groups and search for
patterns like those synonymous with ground breaking
technology groups
Data science
Provisional results
Ground breaking firms
vs
Ground breaking
technology area
Provisional results
High tech ground
breaking technology
area
vs
All other ground
breaking technology
areas
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
Patent publications
Data coverage 1 Pre Publication
Application Growth
Data coverage
Data coverage
0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
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7,000,000
8,000,000
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92
01
22
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5
Patent publications and IPC
Publication count IPC count
Data coverage 2
IPC established by
the Strasbourg Agreement
0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
7,000,000
8,000,000
9,000,000
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99
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72
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02
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32
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62
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92
01
22
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5
Patent publications and citations
Publication count Citation count
Data coverage 3
European Patent
Convention
Online searching
Next steps
1. Identify variables synonymous with the ground breaking
technology groups
2. Group patent data into technology groups and search for
patterns like those synonymous with ground breaking
technology groups