Business Analytics: A Patent Landscape Retrospective Mapping

Abstract

Knowledge of patents relevant to business analytics (business analytics) is very important for entrepreneurs and companies in developing environmentally friendly business and innovation strategies. This study aims to find out the patent landscape and the main trends in patent intellectual property on the topic of business analytics around the world by using bibliometric analysis. Researchers applied an analysis of the patent landscape using data on 4,731 patent intellectual property documents from the Lens database. The results of the study show that every year in general there is an increasing trend in the number of patents related to the field of business analytics. Patents related to business analytics are dominated by the physics (G) and electricity (H) patent sections. There is an entrepreneurial opportunity without paying royalties by using 234 patent discontinues related to business analytics. Intellectual property patents related to business analytics are dominated by company ownership and inventors from the United States. There are 2,143 simple family patent business analytics in 12 jurisdictions of countries or regions and the highest is the United States.