[Purpose/Significance]Identifying future competitors of an enterprise is very important for the current decision-making of an enterprise.Once a potential competitor turns into a direct competitor,it will often bring a huge impact to the enterprise,and even endanger the market position of the enterprise.In order to identify potential competitors as early as possible,this research proposes a method for identifying potential competitors based on weak signals,in order to provide methodological support for companies to identify potential competitors.[Method/Process]Patent data were used as the info...
