中国区块链产业研究热点和现状——基于中国专利文献分析

Research Focus and Current Situation of Blockchain Industry in China——Based on Analysis of Chinese Patent Documents

区块链作为一项颠覆性技术,可以构建优异的可信机制,有望改变当前社会商业模式,从而引发新一轮的技术创新和产业变革。目前,中国区块链技术持续创新,已初步形成了区块链产业。本文基于区块链技术中国专利文献,运用文献计量方法以及Incopat数据平台对专利数据进行文献计量和文本聚类分析,从而展示当前中国区块链产业的研究热点和现状,为中国后续区块链产业的研究和健康发展提供参考。研究结果表明:中国区块链专利申请从2016年开始呈现出突发式的井喷状态;从技术应用领域上看,当前区块链技术主要应用于金融商业领域和数据安全与通信领域,区块链技术有望在这两大领域率先实现商业化;从2015年到2018年,区块链专利从基础技术研究逐步过渡到区块链的应用研究,商业化的特征越来越明显;当前,中国区块链产业中还没有形成垄断性的机构,各机构均有较大的成长空间和增长潜力;中国区块链企业/机构需进一步优化全球专利布局。

Blockchain as a disruptive technology can build an excellent trusted mechanism, which will hopefully change current business models and trigger a new round of technical innovation and industry revolution. At present, blockchain technology innovates continuously in China and the blockchain industry is initially formed. In this article, bibliometric analysis and text clustering analysis of blockchain patents are carried out by using bibliometric method and Incopat platform. The research focus and the current situation of blockchain industry in China are presented to provide reference for the healthy development of blockchain industry. The main results are as follows. Blockchain patents applications in China have shown a rapid growth since 2016. For application areas, blockchain technology is mainly used in financial field and data security and communication field. Blockchain technology is hopefully commercialized first in this two fields. From 2015 to 2018, the blockchain patents are gradually from fundamental techniques to applied research and commercialization of the blockchain is increasingly clear. At present, there is no monopolistic organization formed in blockchain industry of China. And each organization has a huge growing space and potential. Chinese blockchain companies/organizations should optimize the patent layout in global.