Category: ST&I indicators

  • 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…