Science Research Management ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (9): 138-146.

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The petrometricanalysis of Chinese and American banks’ patents and study on technology innovation strategy under the comparative perspective

Ding Kun, Qu Zhao, Zhang Chunbo   

  1. WISE Lab, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning, China
  • Received:2013-08-01 Revised:2014-04-25 Online:2014-09-25 Published:2014-10-22

Abstract: Banks have become involved in a financial technology products competition and the patent barrier has hindered the development of Chinese banking industry under foreign banks' pressures. The paper comparatively analyzes the distribution of years, collaboration, application organizations, subject categories, characteristics and co-occurrence networks of DII class codes of 8 famous Chinese and American banks with data up to 2012 collected from Derwent Innovation Index. Finally, the paper makes corresponding countermeasures and suggestions as to improve the protection of patents and promote technology innovation of Chinese banking industry.

Key words: Bank patents, patentometrics, Chinese-funded banks, U.S. banks, Patent class code co-occurrence, financial innovation

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