Alliance Platform through Supply Chain – based Patent Analysis. A Study Case of Thin Film Solar Cell.
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Hartanto, Steven
Abstract
The main objective of this research is to introduce a novel, simple yet reliable method for patent analysis, which is Technology Supply Chain (TSC). Derived from Supply Chain (SC) concept, TSC shows how patents related and used process by process in a production system. Entities in SC (i.e. Supplier, manufacturer, distributor, etc) are substituted with production treads. Patents are retrieved from USPTO and classified based on their related expediency to each tread. Analysis is executed from assignee point of view, based on two aspects; quality and quantity, where the measurements indexes of these aspects are represented by normalized C-descriptor and Patent Count. A significant contribution of this research is a platform for alliance between assignees, taking thin film solar cell as a case study. Strategies build from the analysis are distinguished in two main part; horizontal and vertical enhancement. Horizontal enhancement applied in terms of full supply chain control and neighborhood integration while vertical enhancement applied for dominating one process. Since several strategies are presented, at the end a priority list of these strategies will be included. In conclusion, this research tries to filter out the possible assignees that fulfill requirements for alliance and design some reasonable strategies.
Subjects
Technology Supply Chain
C-descriptor
patent count
alliance strategy
thin film solar cell.
Type
thesis
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