Abstract Research on science and technology policy has heavily relied on patent data. However, relatively few studies of food safety patent activity appear in scholarly literature. This paper provides a discussion on patents as a measure of new knowledge generation in the food safety sector. In so doing, there are inherent challenges to identifying a research taxonomy for this multidisciplinary area. To overcome these challenges, the paper uses a natural language approach that can be applied to other research areas where boundaries of fields are not well defined.

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食品安全领域的专利活动

摘要 科技政策研究严重依赖专利数据。然而，学术文献中关于食品安全专利活动的研究相对较少。本文讨论了专利作为衡量食品安全部门新知识生成的方法。在这样做时，为这个多学科领域确定研究分类存在固有的挑战。为了克服这些挑战，本文使用了一种自然语言方法，该方法可以应用于其他领域边界不明确的研究领域。