Abstract: 【Purpose/significance】Many well-known enterprises are not aware of the development trend of emerging technologies and
ignore the potential competitors that may pose a threat to themselves in the future,and finally fall into bankruptcy.At present,there is a
lack of research on the identification of potential competitors from the perspective of emerging technologies【. Method/process】On the basis of literature research,this paper analyzes the connotation of potential competitors identification,and constructs the process of po-tential competitors identification from the perspective of emerging technologies.The identification process includes three steps:prepro-cessing patent data,emerging technologies identification and potential competitors identification,involving key issues such as the con-struction of LDA topic model, the establishment of emerging technologies index system and the calculation of technical knowledge stock【. Result/conclusion】Taking the field of intelligent driving as an example,this study proves that it is feasible to identify potential competitors based on emerging technologies.It is expected that this method can provide decision support for leading enterprises to iden-tify potential competitors【. Innovation/limitation】The innovation of this paper is mainly combine emerging technologies identification with potential competitors identification,enrich the theory and method of potential competitors identification.