Category: Future-oriented technology analysis

  • A hybrid approach to identify and forecast technological opportunities based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis (Full-Text)

    The spring up of new & emerging technologies brings a lot of innovation opportunities for society, which enables technology opportunities analysis attracts increasing attention by both industry and academia recently. This study proposes a hybrid approach which integrates topic modeling, sentiment analysis, patent mining and expert judgment to identify technological topics and the potential development…

  • Future of Bioprinted Tissues аnd Organs: A Two-Wave Global Survey (Full-Text)

    Technologies of 3D- and 4D-bioprinting make it possible to restore or replace tissues and organs, solving the problem of the lack of donor resources and reducing the risks of implant rejection. This article presents the results of a two-stage global survey of specialists in tissue engineering on the prospects of bioprinting in preclinical studies and…

  • Customer experience research: intellectual structure and future research opportunities

    This article aims to synthesize and integrate current research on customer experience (CX), identifying the intellectual structure of the field, systematizing a conceptual framework and identifying future research opportunities. To analyze 629 articles published in peer-reviewed journals in almost four decades, this study employs both bibliometric co-keyword and thematic literature analysis in a complementary way.This…

  • Technology Roadmapping Using Text Mining: A Foresight Study for the Retail Industry (FULL-TEXT)

    Technology roadmapping is a widely accepted method for offering industry foresight as it supports strategic innovation management and identifies the potential application of emerging technologies. While roadmapping applications have been implemented across different technologies and industries, prior studies have not addressed the potential application of emerging technologies in the retail industry. Furthermore, few studies have…

  • Measuring tech emergence: A contest

    Highlights Thirteen teams strive to distinguish emerging research topics in synthetic biology. Analyses of ten years of article abstracts predict topics in the next two years. Augmenting, consolidating, embedding, and clustering text help detect emergence. Analyses of citation patterns and research networking also help discern emergence. We conducted a contest to predict highly active research…

  • Tech mining to validate and refine a technology roadmap

    This study uses ‘tech mining’ (extracting intelligence from R&D data) to validate and refine the content of a particular section of a landmark roadmap of nanotechnology for aeronautics. We utilize topical content from publications and patents to analyze the developmental status of nanocomposite coating technologies. This enables us to validate predictions made by specialists, as…

  • Exploring Technology Evolution Pathways to Facilitate Technology Management: From a Technology Life Cycle Perspective

    Technological innovation is a dynamic process that spans the life cycle of an idea, from scientific research to production. Within this process, there are often a few key innovations that significantly impact a technology’s development, and the ability to identify and trace the development of these key innovations comes with a great payoff for researchers…

  • Foresight through Strategic Technology Intelligence for Collaboration and Innovation Pathways (FULL-TEXT)

    Formulating a strategic direction for long-term growth is critical to address the challenges of technological competitiveness in the globalisation era. This article presents a case study of the technology of shelf life extension for agricultural foods. We propose strategic technology intelligence (STI) as an approach that combines quantitative tools with a qualitative technique using technological…

  • Exploring Technology Evolution Pathways to Facilitate Technology Management: From a Technology Life Cycle Perspective

    Technological innovation is a dynamic process that spans the life cycle of an idea, from scientific research to production. Within this process, there are often a few key innovations that significantly impact a technology’s development, and the ability to identify and trace the development of these key innovations comes with a great payoff for researchers…

  • Application of Text-Analytics in Quantitative Study of Science and Technology

    The quantitative study of science, technology and innovation (ST&I ) has experienced significant growth with advancements in disciplines such as mathematics, computer science and information sciences. From the early studies utilizing the statistics method, graph theory, to citations or co-authorship, the state of the art in quantitative methods leverages natural language processing and machine learning.…