Bibliometric analysis of patent documents for R&D management

Luc Quoniam (1) , Parina Hassanaly (1) , Patrick Baldit (2, 1) , Hervé Rostaing (1) , Henri Dou (1)

1 CRRM - Centre de recherche rétrospective de Marseille
2 LIPI - ENSSPICAM - Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Projets Industriels, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Synthèses, de Procédés et d'Ingénierie Chimiques d'Aix-Marseille

The links between innovation, competitive intelligence, patents and bibliometric analysis are briefly described, mainly to introduce the reasons for our bibliometric example. Results of an original statistical classification of patents are presented to show the complementarity between documentary classifications and how patent data (and not patent citation) can provide strategic information.

Mots clés: Patent analysis; Bibliometric analysis; Statistical classification of patents; Strategic information building; Analyse des brevets; Analyse bibliométrique; Classification statistique des brevets; Construction d'informations stratégiques

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Luc Quoniam, Parina Hassanaly, Patrick Baldit, Hervé Rostaing, Henri Dou. Bibliometric analysis of patent documents for R&D management. Research Evaluation, 1993, 3 (1), pp.13-18. ⟨10.1093/rev/3.1.13⟩. ⟨hal-01894804⟩