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Patent stimuli search and its influence on ideation outcomes

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العنوان: Patent stimuli search and its influence on ideation outcomes
المؤلفون: Binyang Song, V. Srinivasan, Jianxi Luo
المصدر: Design Science, Vol 3 (2017)
بيانات النشر: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: LCC:Drawing. Design. Illustration
LCC:Engineering design
مصطلحات موضوعية: design ideation, concept generation, novelty, patent, network analysis, Drawing. Design. Illustration, NC1-1940, Engineering design, TA174
الوصف: Prior studies on design ideation have demonstrated the efficacy of using patents as stimuli for concept generation. However, the following questions remain: (a) From which part of the large patent database can designers identify stimuli? (b) What are their implications on ideation outcomes? This research aims to answer these questions through a design experiment of searching and identifying patent stimuli to generate new concepts of spherical rolling robots. We position the identified patent stimuli in the home, near and far fields defined in the network of patent technology classes, according to the network’s community structure and the knowledge proximity of the stimuli to the spherical rolling robot design. Significant findings are: designers are most likely to find patent stimuli in the home field, whereas most patent stimuli are identified in the near field; near-field patents stimulate the most concepts, which exhibit a higher average novelty; combined home- and far-field stimuli are most beneficial for high concept quality. These findings offer insights on designers’ preferences in search for patent stimuli and the influence of stimulation distance on ideation outcomes. The findings will also help guide the development of a computational tool for the search of patents for design inspiration.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2053-4701
Relation: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2053470117000270/type/journal_article; https://doaj.org/toc/2053-4701
DOI: 10.1017/dsj.2017.27
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/1d7d14cdfd6247e8a2eaec0bf7b085a3
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.1d7d14cdfd6247e8a2eaec0bf7b085a3
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20534701
DOI:10.1017/dsj.2017.27