Author: VPInstitute
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Mapping technological innovation dynamics in artificial intelligence domains: Evidence from a global patent analysis (full-text)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a technology at the center of many political, economic, and societal debates. This paper formulates a new AI patent search strategy and applies this to provide a landscape analysis of AI innovation dynamics and technology evolution. The paper uses patent analyses, network analyses, and source path link count algorithms…
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Library Responses During the Early Days of the Pandemic: A Bibliometric Study of the 2020 LIS Literature (full-text)
As society emerges from an unprecedented pandemic that saw the closure of libraries, schools, and universities worldwide, the potential lasting impacts on institutions, professions, and communities can begin to be assessed. Through a bibliometric study of COVID-19-related library publishing, combined with thematic coding of article abstracts, this paper provides an initial glimpse into the impacts…
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Electrohydrodynamic Drying in Agribusiness: Literature Review (full-text)
In agribusiness, drying is a unitary operation that optimizes the production and preservation of products and raw materials. Drying is performed through different traditional methods, one of the most recently studied is the electrohydrodynamic drying EHD which uses an electric field that allows decreasing the processing time thus increasing the drying speed of raw materials…
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A systematic literature review of the User Innovation field (FULL-TEXT)
The research provides a systematic review of the conceptual, analytical and empirical user innovation literature from 1970 to 2013. It pretends to answer the following research questions: 1. What are the different research streams within the user innovation field? 2. How the community of scholars and the number of publications in the field have evolved?…