Identifying R&D partners for dye-sensitized solar cells: a multi-level patent portfolio-based approach. Issue 3 (4th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Xuefeng; Li, Rongrong; Huang, Ying; Ma, Pingping
• Is Part Of: Technology analysis & strategic management. Volume 31:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 356
• Page End: 370
• Publication Date: 2019-03-04
• Subjects: R&D partner -- technology similarity -- patent portfolio -- dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs); Technological innovations -- Management -- Periodicals; Research, Industrial -- Management -- Periodicals; High technology industries -- Management -- Periodicals; Strategic planning -- Periodicals; 658.401205
• DOI: 10.1080/09537325.2018.1502875
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0953-7325

Abstract

ABSTRACT: There is a great and urgent necessity for appropriate data and methods to help organisations select appropriate R&D (Research and Development) partners. In response, this study presents a structured framework for identifying and selecting the R&D partners with the greatest potential to meet a given technological need. The formal methods in the framework include systematic information collection, patent portfolio analysis, technological similarity screening, and semantic evaluation that views subject-action-object (SAO) sentence structures as problem-solution patterns. The results of an empirical evaluation, with dye-sensitive solar cells as the case, demonstrate that using this framework can reveal more appropriate R&D partners for technological needs (TNS) in less time and with less cost than methods based solely on one criterion.