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Manuel Sosa
Professor of Technology and Operations Management

Jurgen Mihm
Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Keywords
Product form; Cluster analysis; Experimental validation; Design patents; Industry turbulence; Design innovation
Journal Article
Chan T. H., Mihm J., Sosa M. (2018). On Styles in Product Design: An Analysis of U.S. Design Patents Management Science, 64(3), (pp1230-1249).
Products combine function and form. This paper focuses on product form. The authors combine state-of-the-art clustering techniques with experimental validation to identify styles (groupings of new product designs of similar form) among the more than 350,000 U.S. design patents granted from 1977 through 2010.