Data science as a support for chemical patent management: a case study of the chemical element technetium in oncological area

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INTRODUCTION
A world with rapid scientific and technological changes, need to be aware of issues such as social moviments, environmental, economic and digital transformations, retrospective studies, or data mining. Knowledge and monitoring of these issues are important for decision makers in any area. Specifically in the health area, in business agents, government agencies, in academia or in proposing strategies in the face of new opportunities for the development of new technologies and products. Among the various technological prospecting tools, in the patenting area there is a huge repository of Big Data (1–3).