Author: Susanna

  • 2013 Global TechMining Conference Abstracts

    Keynote WEB AND OTHER UNSTRUCTURED DATA Profiling Science and Innovation Policies of Obama Administration by Mining OSTP Web Resources Zhixiong Zhang, Jianhua Liu, Yimin Zou, Jing Xie and Li Qian Using Websites to Understand Factors Associated with Growth in Green Goods Companies Jan Youtie, Philip Shapira and Sanjay Arora Social media and innovation ecosystems: An…

  • 2012 Global TechMining Conference Abstracts

    TechMining and Innovation Bibliometric perspectives on medical innovation using the medical subject headings (MeSH) of PubMed Loet Leydesdorff, Daniele Rotolo and Ismael Rafols Discovering emerging technology trends: with TRIZ and technology roadmapping Yi Zhang, Alan Porter, Ying Guo and Xiao Zhou Tracing promising nanotechnologies for diseases prevalent in ageing populations Douglas Robinson, Ying Guo, Alan…

  • Technological foresight—the use of biotechnology in the development of new drugs against breast cancer

    The aim of the study is to demonstrate knowledge and information management as a mechanism for developing technological foresight regarding the use of biotechnology in drugs for breast cancer. The methodology applies competitive intelligence (CI) tools to identify international trends concerning drugs for treatment and/or diagnosis, and to identify leading institutions.

  • Biodegradable Polymers: Sectorial Overview and Prospects

    This work on biodegradable polymers involved an analysis of patents to identify indicators for evaluating the prospects and opportunities of action in the field of polymers. We used the Spacenet database and VantagePoint software.

  • Is there a shift to “active nanostructures”?

    It has been suggested that an important transition in the long-run trajectory of nanotechnology development is a shift from passive to active nanostructures. Such a shift could present different or increased societal impacts and require new approaches for risk assessment. An active nanostructure ‘‘changes or evolves its state during its operation,’’ according to the National…

  • Literature-related discovery (LRD): Potential treatments for Multiple Sclerosis

    Literature-related discovery (LRD) is the linking of two or more literature concepts that have heretofore not been linked (i.e., disjoint), in order to produce novel, interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge (i.e., potential discovery). The open discovery systems (ODS) component of LRD starts with a problem to be solved, and generates solutions to that problem through…