Sustainability, Vol. 11, Pages 4945: Bayesian Structural Time Series and Regression Modeling for Sustainable Technology Management (Sustainability)

Many companies take the sustainability of their technologies very seriously, because companies with sustainable technologies are better able to survive in the market. Thus, sustainable technology analysis is important issue in management of technology (MOT). In this paper, we study the management of sustainable technology (MOST). This focuses on the sustainable technology in various MOT fields. In the MOST, sustainable technology analysis is dependent on time periods. We propose a method of sustainable technology analysis using a Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) model based on time series data. In addition, we use the Bayesian regression to find the relational structure between technologies. To show the performance of our method and how the method can be applied to practical works, we carry out a case study using the patent data related to artificial intelligence technologies.