Machine learning-inspired similarity measure to forecast M&A from patent data

Giambattista Albora; Matteo Straccamore; Andrea Zaccaria

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0341010

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Machine learning-inspired similarity measure to forecast M&A from patent data

Giambattista Albora,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy
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Matteo Straccamore ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: matteo.straccamore@cref.it

Affiliations Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy, Sony CSL - Rome, Joint Initiative CREF-SONY, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3351-2323

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Andrea Zaccaria

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC) - CNR, UoS Sapienza, P.le A. Moro, Rome, Italy
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Machine learning-inspired similarity measure to forecast M&A from patent data

Giambattista Albora,
Matteo Straccamore,
Andrea Zaccaria

Published: February 6, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341010

About the Authors

Giambattista Albora

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy

Matteo Straccamore

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: matteo.straccamore@cref.it

Affiliations Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy, Sony CSL - Rome, Joint Initiative CREF-SONY, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3351-2323

Andrea Zaccaria

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale, Rome, Italy, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC) - CNR, UoS Sapienza, P.le A. Moro, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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