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A Text-Embedding-based Approach to Measure Patent-to-Patent Technological Similarity -- Workflow, Code, and Applications
Daniel Hain, Roman Jurowetzki, Tobias Buchmann, Patrick Wolf
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This paper describes an efficiently scalable approach to measure technological similarity between patents by combining embedding techniques from natural language processing with nearest-neighbor approximation. Using this methodology we are able to compute existing similarities between all patents, which in turn enables us to represent the whole patent universe as a technological network. We validate both technological signature and similarity in various ways, and demonstrate at the case of electric vehicle technologies their usefulness to measure knowledge flows, map technological change, and create patent quality indicators. Thereby the paper contributes to the growing literature on text-based indicators for patent analysis. We provide thorough documentations of the method, including all code, indicators, and intermediate outputs at https://github.com/daniel-hain/patent_embedding_research.
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