Abstract
For the last decade, the scientific community and industrial developers have been searching for improved methods to convert biomass into valuable products in order to respond to enhanced sustainability considerations. In this development, catalysts play an essential role at the core of the many technological routes to convert complex biomass into fuels or chemicals, which can be used in our daily lives. This chapter reports on the evolution of catalytic conversion of biomass by exploring databases on scientific literature and on patents retrieved from Scopus and DWPI. The trend analysis of more than 14,000 patent and nonpatent documents on renewable biological feedstock conversion by catalytic route has been carried out by using Intellixir, a statistical tool to analyze a large number of data for scientific intelligence. The scope of this chapter is to not only display a comprehensive study on patent and nonpatent literature in the catalytic upgrading (value creation) of biomass, but to increase the awareness in the use of patent literature as a tool to reach the rich and open-source treasure of knowledge in various technological fields.