Abstract:To identify potential technology opportunities timely and effectively, this paper proposes a technology opportunity identification method based on patent text by using the methods of text mining and outlier detection. Firstly, the paper uses Doc2vec to model the patent abstract to represent semantic information of the text. Then, the paper uses a density-based outlier detection algorithm to identify patents with potential technology opportunities. Finally, the paper takes the identification of potential technologies in the field of deep learning as an example for case analysis, constructs a patent search query and 458 patent documents are collected as the dataset. The empirical results summarize four kinds of topics and ten potential technology opportunities, which verifying the effectiveness of this patent-based technical opportunity identification method, and can provide reference for the enterprise corresponding technology application, research and development and innovation.