DiTTO-LLM: Framework for Discovering Topic-based Technology Opportunities via Large Language Model
This work addresses the need for systematic discovery of technology opportunities for researchers and innovators, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods like LLMs to a new domain.
The paper tackles the problem of identifying emerging technology opportunities by analyzing temporal relationships between technologies in patent data, and the result suggests that AI technology is evolving to become more accessible in everyday life.
Technology opportunities are critical information that serve as a foundation for advancements in technology, industry, and innovation. This paper proposes a framework based on the temporal relationships between technologies to identify emerging technology opportunities. The proposed framework begins by extracting text from a patent dataset, followed by mapping text-based topics to discover inter-technology relationships. Technology opportunities are then identified by tracking changes in these topics over time. To enhance efficiency, the framework leverages a large language model to extract topics and employs a prompt for a chat-based language model to support the discovery of technology opportunities. The framework was evaluated using an artificial intelligence patent dataset provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The experimental results suggest that artificial intelligence technology is evolving into forms that facilitate everyday accessibility. This approach demonstrates the potential of the proposed framework to identify future technology opportunities.