Author: VPInstitute

  • A taxonomy of small firm technology commercialization

    This article proposes a taxonomy of business models used by small, highly innovative firms focused on technology commercialization. Such firms disproportionately contribute to technological change in the US economy. The firms operate across industries and use a variety of technology platforms. Exploratory factor analysis of keyword occurrence on firm websites generated a taxonomy comprising: research…

  • Anticipating Future Innovation Pathways through Large Data Analytics

    Tech Mining is a special form of large data analytics that extracts useful intelligence from search results on a target topic or organization downloaded from global Science, Technology & Innovation (ST&I) databases. This book presents 18 chapters covering advances in analytical frameworks, text anlaytic methods to treat ST&I data effectively, informative indicators and compelling visualizations,…

  • A systematic review of studies on leadership models in educational research from 1980 to 2014

    The purpose of this study is to reveal the extent to which different leadership models in education are studied, including the change in the trends of research on each model over time, the most prominent scholars working on each model, and the countries in which the articles are based. The analysis of the related literature…

  • Technological forecasting of hydrogen storage materials using patent indicators

    Hydrogen is a promising future energy carrier due to its high energetic content and sustainable appeal when produced via clean manufacturing processes. One of the technological challenges concerns its storage in a safe, compact, low mass and high gravimetric capacity manner. In this sense, many Hydrogen Storage Materials (HSM) have been investigated to house this…

  • Collaboration in science and technology organizations of the public sector: A network perspective

    Engaging in collaborative networks can be an important facilitator of innovation for public sector science and technology (S&T) organizations. It is also an important component of S&T policies that require indicators that can assess the networks through which these organizations innovate. In this study, we apply network indicators to two S&T organizations that are part…

  • Monitoring emerging technologies for technology planning using technical keyword based analysis from patent data

    This paper proposes technical keyword-based analysis of patents to monitor emerging technologies, and uses a keyword-based model in contents-based patent analysis. This study also presents methods to automatically select keywords and to identify the relatedness among them. After using text-mining tools and techniques to identify technical keywords, a technical keyword-context matrix is constructed. The relatedness…

  • Research topics and implementation trends on automotive head-up display systems

    For about 5 years, production of automobiles equipped with head-up display (HUD) systems has continuously grown and this trend will remain for at least three years more from 2014 [7, 19]. Therefore, looking for clarifying how to orientate future efforts in developing these systems, a systematic analysis approach has been implemented for identifying best design…

  • A bibliometric analysis of the development of next generation active nanotechnologies

    Delineating the emergence of nanotechnologies that offer new functionalities is an important element in an anticipatory approach to the governance of nanotechnology and its potential impacts. This paper examines the transition to next generation active nanotechnologies which incorporate functions that respond to the environment or systems concepts that combine devices and structures that are dynamic…

  • Graphene enterprise: mapping innovation and business development in a strategic emerging technology

    This paper explores enterprise development and commercialization in the field of graphene. Firm characteristics and relationships, value chain positioning, and factors associated with product entry are examined for a set of 65 graphene-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises located in 16 different countries. As well as secondary sources and bibliometric methods to profile developments in graphene,…

  • Lessons from Ten Years of Nanotechnology Bibliometric Analysis

    This paper summarizes the 10-year experiences of the Program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP) at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in support of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) in understanding, characterizing, and conveying the development of nanotechnology research and application. This work was labeled “Research and…