Titre : The technological quality of patents: two structural readings Auteurs : Raffaele Anedda, Revue : Technology and Innovation Numéro : Issue 2 Volume : 6 Date : 2021/03/12 DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0625 ISSN : 2399-8571 Résumé : The aim of this article is to propose the structural readings of two indicators of the technological quality of patents: originality and generality. To do so, we transform them into mathematical objects - graphs - and insist on amendments and extensions inspired by this new approach. In the first reading, we start from the original indices and we directly apply a representation in the form of graphs to them. In the second reading, we start from the technological flow matrices and reconstruct the dispersion indices as they were originally conceived. We go even further by proposing other indices of technological quality from these matrices, including one that seems to have a greater scope for assessing this quality. Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience