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Lens.org: A free and open platform for science and technology mapping October 28, 2019

Aaron BallaghManager, Scholarly Content, Lens.org

● Founded in 2000, Lens was the world’s first free and open full text patent search.

● Lens has been up 24/7 for ~20 years

● Now serves global scholarly knowledge and analytics integrated with patents.

● Lens created In4M - measuring influence of research through its citations in patents.

● Lens has been supported by philanthropies, governmental donors, universities (including QUT) and visionary patent offices

● Lens honours privacy and its data is fully open, sharable and reusable.

The Lens: A history

Where Have We Come From?

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Principles and Mission:Free, Open And Secure Innovation Cartography

Provide services that democratizes access to information and renders discovery, analytics and decision making processes more efficient, open and transparent to accelerate innovation.

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Provide an enabling facility that engages the global research community and industry to encourage and ‘map’ influence on the innovation system and identify Partnership, Opportunities, Risks and Trajectories (PORTs)

Deliver an analytical solution that facilitates research and industry partnerships around Science and Technology-Enabled Problem Solving (STEPS).

ResearchersDirectly link scholarly non-

patent literature with patent literature.

IndustryFind experts through patents that cite scholarly work.

ResultsExposure of opportunities for innovative partnerships with

industry, informed by public research. Mapping PORTs.

Outcome Enable public and private investors to evaluate the extent to which investment has resulted in economic and social

innovations.

Expose Capabilities and Incentivise Partnerships

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1. Private, trusted and secure.The Lens is private and secure, we don’t track users, we don’t sell data and we don’t advertise. So what you do on the platform is your business and you choose what to make public.

2. Open, no constraints.Open source, Open Data, Open Access. Only global public good service providing open access to a comprehensive collection, analysis, annotation and sharing of patent and relevant research.

3. Free to all end-users. No user will be charged to use Lens, and access all public data and analytic capability. Lens welcomes partners to enrich and improve efficiency, transparency and sharing of quality data

4. Break the silos of domain knowledge. Allow joining and sharing of diverse data, information and user-supplied knowledge to allow verifiable ‘maps’ of innovation domains.

Our Difference

Why Are We Unique? Our competitors operate in parts of the innovation system, we operate as an open aggregator across the system. Openness and transparency build trust. Trust builds community.

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Lens Patent DataOctober 2019

118.9 Million Patent Records: • 105 jurisdictions• 65M patent families • 692k biological patents• 316M patent sequences

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Features EPO Espacenet

Google Patents

WIPO PatentScope Lens

Jurisdictions 90+(million) 17 41 105

Sequence Data No No No 692K biological patents

Collections & Portfolios Yes No No Yes

Graphing and Analysis No Yes Yes Yes

Alert Service RSS only No RSS Only Yes

Lens.org helps you navigate the innovation system faster, safer and more affordably.Patents

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Lens Scholarly DataOctober 2019

208.6 million scholarly records:• 107.5M journal articles• 14.8M Books and book chapters• 6.8M conference proceedings• 4M works cited in patents• 20M patent citations• 69.6M works cited by other scholarly works• 1.48B scholarly citations

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Features Elsevier’s Scopus

Clarivate Analytics Web of Science

Digital Science Dimensions

Google Scholar The Lens

Number of Journals 23,700 33,000 50,000 unknown 39,594

Number of Works 72,000,000 105,000,000 98,175,328 389,000,000 (est.) 208,967,093

Period Covered 1996 - 1900 - 1400- unknown 1800 -

Citation Analysis Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (patents & scholar)

Bulk Export 20,000 records 5,000 records 50,000 records unknown 50,000 records & API

Access Subscription Subscription Freemium Free but not open or private

Free, Open and Private

Scholarly WorksThe Lens - A public good alternative platform for scholars and universities

Products and Services

Solutions to Accelerate Innovation ● Search and analyse the global corpus of

Scholarly Works and Patents● In4M - International Industry & Innovation

Influence Mapping● PatCite - Explore linkages between

patents and non-patent literature● PatSeq - Analyse biological sequences

disclosed in patents● API & Data facility - Scholarly API,

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SCHOLARLY

Search & AnalysisFind, collect and explore scholarly literature, fetch open access works and discover the influence of scholarship on both academia and industry. Share your findings with anyone.

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PATENT

Search & AnalysisUse advanced search options to find the most relevant and important patents; understand their families and timelines; explore the richness of classifications. Use facets and analytics to obtain new insights. .

PATENT

Search & AnalysisUse advanced search options to find the most relevant and important patents; understand their families and timelines; explore the richness of classifications. Explore the linkages with non-patent literature. Use facets and analytics to obtain new insights.

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In4MInternational Industry & Innovation Influence MappingUsing patent citations to map the influence of scholarship on academia and industry, In4M explores, exposes and ranks the degree to which research works, scholars’ work product, or whole institutions influence outcomes for society.

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Use open persistent identifiers (PMIDs or DOIs) to discover which scholarly articles have influenced what patents and who is using scholarly work to build products. Explore who is citing your scholarly work(s) and map the influence on industry by visualising and exploring the network of linkages.

PATCITE

Open influence mapping facility

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PATSEQ

Explore Biological Sequences in PatentsDNA and protein in patents are crucial to understand and harness new science for health, agriculture and the environment.

Lens hosts the world’s largest publicly available database and toolkit for biological patents, with internal transparency.

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Create, edit, annotate, analyse, share and publish collections of patents or scholarship. Create and explore collections to understand who does what, when and where to inform decision-making.

COLLECTIONS

Dashboards & Reports

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● This FREE service provides access to the PatSeq biological sequences bulk data, as well as the full corpus of Lens scholarly works using the flexibility and convenience of an API

● The API allows you to perform and combine several types of searches using a number of different operations

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Introducing the new API & Data facility

API & Data facilityJune 2019

Live Demo: Using Lens.org to map the influence of science on technology

Science and Technology Mapping and Landscapes

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Prototype: Science and Technology Landscaping

Examples:● CRISPR-Cas9 Technology● Ultra-Low-Cost Wind Power