May 21, 2013, the United States Intelligent Information Services Corporation CEO Nils C. Newman was invited to visit the School of Management and Economics, and made a presentation entitled "The Role of Patent Analysis in Tech Mining: What Patents can tell us about Science and Technology "in the main conference room 418. Mr. Nils C. Newman has long committed to the development of technology management analysis tools. He was involved in intelligence analysis software tools development and applications such as TDA, and VantagePoint. He has worked for the United States, European and Asian governments and private companies to provide competitive technical intelligence services.
In the report, Mr. Nils introduced the strengths and status of patent data on sci-tech assessment and technology mining and analysis, compared similarities and differences between patent data and scientific literatures. In addition, Mr. Nils described commonly used patents analysis methods and patent data mining FAQs.