Open AccessAn exploratory study on convergence in ICT using patent analysis
Author(s) -
Eunhee Kim,
Jaejon Kim,
Joon Kho
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
la referencia (red federada de repositorios institucionales de publicaciones científicas)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5748/9contecsi2012/ps-556
Subject(s) - information and communications technology , merge (version control) , convergence (economics) , exploratory analysis , exploratory research , industrial organization , business , computer science , sample (material) , information technology , knowledge management , data science , economics , economic growth , world wide web , chemistry , chromatography , sociology , anthropology , information retrieval , operating system
Since the 1990s, information and communication technology (ICT) has been perceived as the critical technology for economic development, and the ICT industry itself has been growing exceptionally fast. Moreover, technology convergence in ICT has received particular attention. ICT innovations diffuse into existing products and thus come to form a new integral part of the goods. This is an exploratory research to examine technology convergence of supply side as a firm level in ICT sector using International Patent Classification (IPC) of 43,636 sample patents from 1998 to 2008. This study finds degree of merge and relationships between different technology domains through association rule mining of patent co-classification. This type of analysis helps companies to take strategies under the environment of technological trajectory change.
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