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Uncovering the structures and maturity of the new service development (NSD) research field through a bibliometric study (1984–2014)

This study aims to develop a deeper understanding of the new service development (NSD) research field. It addresses its scientific production, social and intellectual structures, and maturity. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a bibliometric-based literature review. Quantitative and qualitative analyses are performed on a sample of 277 NSD articles (published from 1984 to 2014). These articles…
Identifying R&D partners through Subject-Action-Object semantic analysis in a problem & solution pattern (full-text)

Today’s companies still rely heavily on expert knowledge rather than quantitative data with a systematic approach to effectively identify and choose Research and Development (R&D) partners. It is advantageous to identify and select potential R&D partners using a Problem & Solution (P&S) pattern. This paper presents a novel process for identifying R&D partners on the…
INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE OF STEM EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (full-text)

The aim of this research is to put forward the intellectual structure of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education concept in educational research. STEM education has emerged as a highly accepted paradigm in education especially in the USA and European countries in recent years. The theoretical substructure of STEM education that is seen as…
Profiling the Research Landscape in Emerging Areas Using Bibliometrics and Text Mining: A Case Study of Biomedical Engineering (BME) in Thailand

This study focuses on applying bibliometric analysis and text mining technique to generate technology intelligence from publication databases. The intelligence represents the research profile and landscape by highlighting active research areas and revealing professional communities along with their social networks. Professional communities can be not just existing networks, but also hidden ones. In this paper,…
Scientific collaboration in indigenous knowledge in context: Insights from publication and co-publication network analysis

Scientific collaboration has been cited as a major stimulant in innovation and a major component for the development of indigenous technologies particularly in countries invested in rapid technological catch-up in East Asia and Southeast Asia. In this study, we assess the comparative advantage of the selected economies and employ a network perspective to drill down…
Urban heat island research from 1991 to 2015: a bibliometric analysis

A bibliometric analysis based on the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-Expanded) database from the Web of Science was performed to review urban heat island (UHI) research from 1991 to 2015 and statistically assess its developments, trends, and directions. In total, 1822 papers published in 352 journals over the past 25 years were analyzed for scientific output; citations;…
Survey of Technology Forecasting Techniques for Complex Systems

Complex system design and assessment is a challenging task exasperated by the need to forecast nascent technology in system evaluation. Proper technology forecasting technique selection will assist decision makers to understand the risks involved in the integration of emerging technology into existing or new complex system developments.This research surveys the field of technology forecasting using…
Changes in the Intellectual Structure of Service Innovation and Service System in The Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Analysis From 1986 To 2015 (full-text)

In the past thirty years, growth in all service sectors and rapid advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have revealed new challenges for improving service systems through service innovation. Although, these areas of researches are closely related, few studies have investigated the relationship between these areas. This study aims to analyse the changes in…
Evidences in Scientific Knowledge Management of Biotechnology in Brazil (full-text)

This paper presents a study on scientific knowledge management of Biotechnology area through analysis of scientific Biotechnology trends in Brazil, providing an overview of the science profile as well as regional development and its relation to issues of topics based on the analysis of scientific publications for the period of last 10 years. Given these…
Relational Governance and Modularity of Japanese Automotive Industry: Effects and Dynamic of Strategic Action FIELD (full-text)

The objective of this study was to analyze the modularity in the networks of Japanese automakers from 2007 to 2014 and its association to the dynamics of strategic action fields. The metric of modularity (Q) (Clauset, Newman, & Moore, 2004; Newman, 2006) indicates the best partition in groups of a particular network. As a global…