Prediction of Patent Number of "Specialized, Refinement, 
Differential and Innovation" Little Giant Enterprises in Jiangsu 
Province based on GM (1.1) Mode 
Fushun Bai, Yunqian Lv, Keying Chen, Wenxin Fan, Xingcheng Wen and Donghui Wang
*
 
Ningbo University of Finance and Economics, Ningbo, China 
*328793803@qq.com 
Keywords:  Small Giant Enterprise, Little Giant Enterprise, Jiangsu Province, Gray GM (1.1) Model, Patent Number. 
Abstract:  The number of patents is an important index to measure the technological innovation ability of an enterprise. 
If the most accurate as possible predictions can be made about the number of corporate patents in the region, 
It has a positive significance for the future economic development and policy formulation of the region, This 
paper uses the gray GM (1.1) model to predict the patent number of listed companies in the "specialization, 
refinement, characteristics and novelty" Little giant enterprises in Jiangsu Province, Using the 7-year data 
from 2013-2020 as raw data for grey predictions, Establish the prediction model of patent number of 
"Specialized, Refinement, Differential and Innovation" Little giant enterprises in Jiangsu Province, Model 
tests were also performed using residual estimation, And the patent number prediction model of 
"Specialized ,Refinement, Differential and Innovation" Little giant enterprises in Jiangsu Province has been 
successfully established. 
1  INTRODUCTION 
Specialized, Refinement, Differential and Innovation 
"little giant" enterprises are the leaders among small 
and medium-sized enterprises. They are focused on 
market segmentation, strong innovation ability, high 
market share, grasp the key core technologies, 
excellent quality and efficiency of the vanguard 
enterprises, with the characteristics of "specialization, 
refinement, characteristics and novelty" (Lu, Gao, 
2020; Dong, Li, 2021)
0
. By the end of 2021, the 
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology had 
cultivated 4,762 national Specialized, Refinement, 
Differential and Innovation "little giants" enterprises. 
This paper predicts the number of listed Little giant 
enterprise patents by GM (1.1) model in Jiangsu 
Province. 
2  GM (1.1) MODEL 
CONSTRUCTION 
The basic idea of GM (1.1) model is that the original 
sequence is generated once. Due to the accumulated 
sequence has an exponential growth trend, the 
approximate first-order differential equation is used 
to establish the model, and finally the modeling 
sequence is reduced to complete the prediction of the 
development trend of the original sequence (Xiao, 
He, 2021). 
The original sequence is: 
X(0) = {x(0)(1), x(0)(2), … , x(0)(n)}
 
X(0)Next, add up to generate as follows: 
X
(
)
(K) = X
(0)(i),K=1,2,3, ··· n      (1) 
A sequence with exponential laws is generated as 
follows: 
X
()
={X
()
(1), X
()
(2), … , X
()
(n)} 
Grasp X(1) The sequence is approximately the 
solution of the first-order differential equations. 
dx
()
dt
+ax
()
= b                           (2) 
A is the development coefficient of the model; b 
is the ash action amount