Technological Trajectory of Business Method by Using USPTO Database

• Main Authors: Shu-jung Chen, 陳樹榮
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97896750376730635871

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 企業管理系碩士班 === 92 === Under the circumstance that “knowledge economy” is the main stream of existing environment, the change of the market and technology is fast. Enterprises need to master and control the change of the market and technology at any time to get success and make profit. In recent years, because the extensive application of quilt of the technology of the computer, for instance: E-commerce B2B , B2C , payment thru internet, the way of logistics control, the tracking record of production procedures, satellite based system (Global Positioning System；GPS) etc., the automatic operations thru computers or machinery equipment are all included into the patent range of “business methods”. It causes the structural change on traditional business transactions, service and production procedures. Because the development of technology information contains in the database of patents, and because its characteristic is full of diversification and complexity, it is not easy to retrieve and analyze the data. This problem is also an important subject that enterprises face nowadays. For those documents of patent analysis in the past, it contains few research on the development track of both technology dynamic change and dominant design. So, this paper is trying to utilize U.S.A.''s patent database to screen the research object with quantity of output and quality of the patent in this research (namely the main technological output manufacturer of now), patent document basic analysis , and from the numbers of patent granted that changed to Revealed Patent Advantage (RPA) index carry on statistical analysis of technical management and verification, probe into the developing direction of current “business method”, its main technological categories and difference, to construct a simple and effective model of technology classification. This study paper is constructed from 25 main sub-technological categories and reduced to 5 main technologies, based on technology capability to divide into 6 groups from 34 companies, to analyze each group’s technology difference and technology competence. Then, take the group of “integritor of banking and financial technology” as an example, utilizing Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) to draw the technology position map of the group company and explain the management connotation of its technology group. Finally, this study draws the technological innovation curve with the technological quantity of output of the patent and main technological categories combining the dynamic models raised by Utterback-Abernathy ((1978) to be the real proof of “business method” technology trajectories development.