'Driving Domestic Industrial Competitiveness' KIPO Opens National Patent Big Data Center

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] A government infrastructure that will draw the future blueprint of the domestic industry based on patent analysis results has opened its doors.

On the 18th, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced that it held an opening ceremony for the 'National Patent Big Data Center' at the Korea Patent Strategy Development Institute within the Korea Intellectual Property Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, together with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

The Patent Big Data Center will serve as a guide for discovering future promising technologies and establishing nurturing strategies based on patent analysis.

By analyzing 450 million global patents, it diagnoses and predicts the investment directions of competing countries and companies, and derives South Korea's research and development (R&D) directions, investment directions, and market entry strategies to enhance national industrial competitiveness.

First, through the Patent Big Data Center, KIPO will monitor patent trends by industry related to 17 new industries such as artificial intelligence (AI) and future-type automobiles, 10 major industries including shipbuilding and chemicals, and social issues closely related to citizens' lives until 2022. It will then detect crisis signals by sector or produce core information such as promising technologies to provide to the nation and companies.

Last year, KIPO provided industrial innovation strategies based on patent big data in five fields: display, bio-health, hydrogen industry, system semiconductors, and next-generation batteries.

This year, using the Patent Big Data Center, it plans to derive future promising technologies in five new industry fields?artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) home appliances, renewable energy, future-type automobiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles?and assist their integration and utilization in the industrial field.

In particular, in the second half of the year, KIPO plans to establish an online platform that collects various patent analysis results scattered across multiple domestic and international institutions and provides them to the public and private sectors. By utilizing this platform, it will provide discovered core patents and company information to financial institutions and investors, thereby supporting investment-worthy intellectual properties and companies.

The patent analysis results of the Patent Big Data Center are also expected to be actively used in areas such as 'industrial intelligence,' which promotes digital transformation by industry, and 'industrial technology R&D planning,' focusing on promising patent technology fields.

Park Won-joo, Commissioner of KIPO, said, “If we gather the vast amount of patent big data scattered around the world in one place, derive meaningful results, and utilize them, it will lay the foundation to further enhance the competitiveness of the nation and companies.”

He added, “The opening of the Patent Big Data Center will contribute to establishing future national R&D strategies through multilateral cooperation among the government, R&D specialized institutions, and the private sector, and strengthen the competitiveness of the entire domestic industry.”

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