Patent Co-Inventor Network Visualization Tool
Patent Co-Inventor Network Visualization Tool enable us to visualize a particular type of connection among inventors: those who have filed a patent together, and therefore have worked closely together on at least one project. There are a number of reasons this could be useful:
- You might want to know which companies were major players in a technological field, in an intuitive, visual way.
- You might start with an inventor and want to know who she collaborated with at an important juncture in her career. Was she a loner? Immersed in a dense web of inventors working on similar topics? At the periphery of the field, or a key figure connecting several networks?
- You might be curious about ways that a field (or inventor's career) changed over time. Comparing several social networks representing different periods can visualize these changes.
Source:http://douglasoreagan.com/socialnetwork/userguide.php
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