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...

The exploration of the reverse salient of electric vehicle systems for urban mobility

Electrification transportation for urban mobility is a hot topic around the world. Many types of electric vehicles could be employed for urban mobility, but both the EVs’ adoption rate and the deployment of their dependent infrastructures are either in the nascent stage or have not been commercialized. No study has studied the drawbacks of EV...