Research on the Relative Competitiveness of Companies Based on Patent Analysis

Patent has becoming an important indicator and factor to measure technology innovation ability and competitiveness of companies. The aim of this study is to reveal the relative competitiveness of companies through patent analysis. The basic idea of patent relative competiveness analysis is set up. Base on the indicators of patent count, patent citation number, relative growth rate, relative development growth rate, relative technology position and revealed technological advantage etc., integrated index system of relative competitiveness analysis is built up and quantitative method is adopted. The empirical analysis has been made to study leading companies in communication industry. The result shows the proposed method is appropriate for analyzing the relative competitiveness among companies in certain industry.