Category: ST&I indicators

  • Text-mining and visualization using VOSviewer

    Extended Abstract – NEW S,T&I VISUALIZATIONS  session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s): Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University) VOSviewer is a computer program that we have developed for constructing, visualizing, and exploring bibliometric maps of science (Van Eck & Waltman, 2010). The program is freely available…

  • Learning to Play the Game: An Enhanced Indicator to Investigate Graduate Training Programs in Science and Engineering

    Extended Abstract – NEW INDICATORS  session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s):Julia Melkers, Diego Pinheiro, Jan Youtie, (School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology) The need to encourage future generations of students in the pursuit of science and technological research has been viewed as a cornerstone of US efforts to maintain leadership in research,…

  • Publication trends in large pharmaceutical firms

    Extended Abstract – MINING AND VISUALIZING LIFE SCIENCES session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s): Ismael Rafols, Alice O’Hare, Antonio Perianes, Michael M. Hopkins, and Paul Nightingale It has been claimed that the advent of biotechnology about 30 years ago resulted in a shift in the pharmaceutical industry from an innovation system based on vertically…

  • How product and process innovations are accompanied by business methods: The case of RFID

    Extended Abstract – TECHMINING FOR MoT AND CTI session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Authors: Jan M. Gerken1 and Martin G. Moehrle1, Institute of Project Management and Innovation Technological innovations have become very important, as technological innovations and their protection have been considered as the most important dimension of regimes of appropriability (Teece, 1986).…

  • 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…