Mitigating Fixation in Creative Process by Using Patent Data Tool as Stimuli

In the early conceptual stage of design, novice designers and professionals experience different levels of fixation. Design tools and workflows can support designers to explore creative opportunities. Patent data tool for engineering design purposes is one example, using the design-by-analogy method to facilitate divergent ideation. This work...

Designing a sustainable high-rise structure: Research into the material environmental impact of the main load-bearing structure of the building for the European Patent Office

This research investigated in which ways the material environmental impact of the main load-bearing structure of a high-rise building can be reduced. To determine this material environmental impact, the shadow price for each material and product has been determined by using ten environmental impact categories. One of these categories is global...

Intellectual Property Protection Strategies for Blockchain Technology Applications

Due to the increasing use of Blockchain technology, patent offices are receiving a high number of applications for the protection of intellectual property rights of Blockchain technology applications. The protection of Blockchain technology applications is problematic however, due to the limited connection between emerging high technology and...

Conceptual Clustering of Patents: Enhancing insight for the decision making process in Strategic Technology Planning

Within technological R&D companies, the decisions made within their Strategic Technology Planning (STP) process are of great importance due to their financial, legal and competitive repercussions. For this reason their R&D managers want to be as widely informed as possible about the risks and benefits of developing a certain technology. As the...

Touch-Based Organization of Patent Collections

The number of patent applications has been growing rapidly: in 2010 the patent application requests increased with 11% at the European Patent Office. It is important that patent examiners can efficiently compare new applications with published patents. Patent examiners review the list of relevant patents, returned by a search query, one at a...

Vector-Based Semantic Expansion Approach: An Application to Patent Retrieval

Patent collection is increasing incrementally. Most of the new technological information is from patent documents, and retrieving specific patents in such a large pool of documents has become a challenging issue for both patent examiners and normal/inexperienced users. Nowadays, most of the retrieval systems (patent retrieval systems) search for...

To what extent does electronic database information reflect the process of innovation?

This research aims to investigate whether adding electronic database information with the technology life cycle reflects the process of innovation. The chances of successfully market a news product are dramatically low, resulting in the need for methods to forecast the process of innovation. A well-known method is the use of market research....

Measuring Innovation and the Propensity to Patent

Patents are often taken as an indicator to measure innovativeness, because they are a lot easier to obtain than most others. There is a complication though, which is that patents are not a direct measure of innovativeness: the fit between patents and innovativeness is biased by differing propensities to patent. The propensity to patent was...

TouchPat: A Touch Based Zoomable User Interface for Exploring Large Patent Collections

Patent examiners are under increasing pressure to quickly and accurately evaluate incoming patent applications within large databases. For each incoming patent application, they first extract a subset of possibly relevant patents through keyword-based search queries. These results are summarized in long lists, which provide only minimal...

Power Pebble: Redesign Universal Battery Charger

This unique graduation project covers the entire journey of a product development process, from the very beginning of an idea sketch to the production and the market introduction of the final product, named ‘Power Pebble’. The Power Pebble is a portable universal battery charger for all your mobile electronics, including cell phones, digital...

An Explorative Study on the Relation between Patents and Venture Capital in the Semiconductor Industry

De samenwerking tussen uitvinder en ondernemer bij technologische Start Ups met een patent