Category: ST&I indicators
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Characterization of strategic emerging technologies: the case of big data
Current enterprises face organizational and cultural barriers to adopt and harness the potential of strategic emerging technologies. Late adoption of these technologies will affect competitiveness from which it will be hard to recover. Within the frame of technology analysis field, the present work aims at introducing an approach to obtain the characterization of emerging technologies,…
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How is Data Science Involved in Policy Analysis?: A Bibliometric Perspective
What are the implications of big data in terms of big impacts? Our research focuses on the question, “How are data analytics involved in policy analysis to create complementary values?” We address this from the perspective of bibliometrics. We initially investigate a set of articles published in Nature and Science, seeking cutting-edge knowledge to sharpen…
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A Link Prediction-Based Method for Identifying Potential Cooperation Partners: A Case Study on Four Journals of Informetrics
Global academic exchange and cooperation have become an increasing trend in both academia and industry, but how to quickly and effectively identify potential partners is becoming an urgent problem. This paper proposes a link prediction-based model to help researchers identify partners from a large collection of academic articles in a given technological area. We initially…
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Qualitative Patents Evaluation Through the Analysis of Their Citations. Case of the Technological Sectors in the Basque Country
Patents are an output of the level of innovation of a company or region. Patent quantitative studies are performed by simply counting the number of these documents. For the qualitative evaluation, there is a certain consensus among the authors to consider the citations as the most adequate indicator. However, this indicator presents several problems regarding…