Chance discovery with data crystallization for scenario formation in solar cell technology

As the solar cell, one of renewable energies, is growing at a fast pace, the recognition of its technological situation becomes necessary for a company and stakeholders nowadays. Meanwhile, the patent data contains plentiful technological information from which is worth exploring to extract further knowledge. Therefore, a graph-based approach, chance discovery, is employed so as to analyze the patent data, to form the technological scenarios, and to explain the tendency of solar cell technology. Finally, several topics of solar cell technology have been identified, the directions of each topic have been depicted, and the relations between topics have been also observed.