Research on Identifying Potential Collaborators for Technology Transfer

The increasingly competitive global environment is witnessed a great challenge for the technological innovation capability of organizations. It is particularly important for companies to accurately and quickly capture technology opportunities from outside and find potential collaborators. However, it is a challenging task to discover similar patent documents owned by different institutions, such as companies, universities, or research institutions as patent owners, and to promote cooperation between industry, academia, and research institutes in the process of technology transfer. In this study, based on current methods of patent co-classification, citation coupling, and word co-occurrence analysis, we construct technological clusters of an organization due to the similar application fields, citation coupling, and technical elements. The fusion of the above triple matrix will help obtain recommendations of potential collaborators and technology directions between industry, university, and research.