Innovation search presents many challenges to the research community and also to professional searchers and search solution providers. Patents are complex technical documents, whose content appears in many languages and contains images, chemical and genomic structures and other forms of data, intermixed and cross-referring with the text material. Further much innovation search involves the search of other forms of technical information such as scientific papers, or the integration of open linked data and so on with the patent data. Finally, the realistic presentation of search and analysis results to often non-technical and time-poor audiences for purpose of strategic decision making presents particular challenges.
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