SGER: Worldwide Nanotechnology Development: A Comparative Study of Global Patents

纳米科学与工程（NSE）是一个快速发展的领域，已经证明有可能彻底改变广泛的重要应用。本项目的目标是通过以下方式促进对NSE领域更全面的了解：（1）开发NSE专利分析框架，以分析在多个国际专利局提交的专利;（2）基于文献和内容分析，提供对多个专利局专利中所代表的全球NSE发展状况的评估;以及（3）进行深入的共同发明和引用分析，以研究国家/机构之间的合作和知识传播。拟议的工作将包括三个主要组成部分：数据采集，清理和索引; NSE专利景观分析;以及协作和知识传播分析。 如果成功，这项工作将支持监测未来的全球NSE发展，并帮助潜在的赞助商，政府机构，商业实体和其他人了解NSE的研究和开发状况以及国家之间在NSE领域的合作和互动。 为这项研究开发的方法和工具可扩展到其他领域进行类似的研究。

Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) is a rapidly growing area that has demonstrated the potential to revolutionize a wide range of significant applications. The goal of this project is to promote a more comprehensive understanding of the NSE domain by: (1) developing the NSE patent analysis framework to analyze patents filed in multiple international patent offices;(2) providing assessments of worldwide NSE development status represented in multiple patent offices' patents based on bibliographic and content analysis; and (3) performing in-depth co-invention and citation analysis to study the collaboration and knowledge diffusion between countries/institutions. The proposed work will comprise three majorcomponents: data acquisition, cleaning, and indexing; NSE patent landscape analysis; and collaboration and knowledge diffusion analysis. If successful, this work will support monitoring of future global NSE development, and help potential sponsors, government agencies, business entities and others understand the status of research and development in NSE as well as the collaborations and interactions between countries in the NSE field. The methodology and tools developed for this research are extensible to other fields for similar research.