This methodology is applicable for patents (with an associated search) or scientific publications (with an associated search).
Using the Patents/Scientific Publications search (available with the Geotrend Technology offer) you will be able to analyze all the patents/scientific publications filed by an actor and see which companies file the most patents/publications on your market.
To do this, use the “publication date” filter to select a time period, for example the last 5 years, then select the actor type “organization” and select the strict filter (available as a toggle in the “actor type” filter) option to display only this type of player and not its ecosystem.
Two possibilities are then possible:
- Using the “Registration” relationship (for Scientific Publications, use the "Contribution" relationship) so that the top 10 actors in your dashboard are based only on the number of patents/scientific publications published (otherwise the number of relationships is based on all relationships including those related to classes or inventors and therefore does not tell you which actors have published the most)
- Without filtering on any relationship, you can go to your top 25 table in the Dashboard in order to consult the actors mentioned in the most documents (thus in the most patents/scientific publications, which comes down to the number of patents/publications published by the actor in question)
Once this is done, it is interesting to compare the top most innovative players (publishing the most patents/scientific publications) with the most communicative players in this market. The volume of communication can be identified through a web search on the same subject (see article: Comparing the volume of communication and the size of the players' ecosystems). This data allows you to identify players who innovate but do not necessarily communicate and those who communicate a lot about a technology or market but are not linked to R&D. You will also identify the more mature or historical players who also communicate and participate in research and innovation around the subject in question.
Based on number of applications (number of patents filed) and communication
NB : It is also possible to imagine the same methodology to compare innovative companies publishing patents (with a patent search) and innovative companies publishing scientific publications (with an associated search) in order to understand their R&D positioning and strategy.