Category: ST&I indicators

  • Patent information retrieval: approaching a method and analysing nanotechnology patent collaborations

    Many challenges still remain in the processing of explicit technological knowledge documents such as patents. Given the limitations and drawbacks of the existing approaches, this research sets out to develop an improved method for searching patent databases and extracting patent information to increase the efficiency and reliability of nanotechnology patent information retrieval process and to…

  • Science-technology-industry correlative indicators for policy targeting on emerging technologies: exploring the core competencies and promising industries of aspirant economies

    This paper seeks to contemplate a sequence of steps in connecting the fields of science, technology and industrial products. A method for linking different classifications (WoS–IPC–ISIC concordance) is proposed. The ensuing concordance tables inherit the roots of Grupp’s perspective on science, technology, product and market. The study contextualized the linking process as it can be…

  • The Diffusion of Military Technology

    The impact of national defense research and development spending on overall innovation depends on the extent to which the knowledge and technologies generated by defense funding diffuse. This article uses an original data-set of patents assigned to defense-servicing organizations to investigate the diffusion of military technologies. Contrary to the predictions of the prevailing scholarship, I…

  • Survey of Technology Forecasting Techniques for Complex Systems

    Complex system design and assessment is a challenging task exasperated by the need to forecast nascent technology in system evaluation. Proper technology forecasting technique selection will assist decision makers to understand the risks involved in the integration of emerging technology into existing or new complex system developments.This research surveys the field of technology forecasting using…

  • Relational Governance and Modularity of Japanese Automotive Industry: Effects and Dynamic of Strategic Action FIELD (full-text)

    The objective of this study was to analyze the modularity in the networks of Japanese automakers from 2007 to 2014 and its association to the dynamics of strategic action fields. The metric of modularity (Q) (Clauset, Newman, & Moore, 2004; Newman, 2006) indicates the best partition in groups of a particular network. As a global…

  • Study on main delivery actors in Technology Delivery System (TDS) based on multi-data sources

    As innovation becomes important and complex, researchers started to explore innovation process under the background of Big Data. Technology Delivery System (TDS), a systematic method dynamically showing innovation process, has caused the extensive concern worldwide. As an essential step to construct TDS better, this study aims to identify main delivery actors in TDS based on…

  • Nano-enabled Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy: Literature Analysis Using the MeSH System

    Biomedical literature provides abundant knowledge on R&D development and emerging themes and techniques to researchers and to enhance clinical treatment. Tracing research topic activity and researcher connections, and understanding evolving research landscapes, supports identification of research domain potential and informs R&D portfolio management. Methods: We offer a systematic approach to summarize biomedical research information compiled…

  • A taxonomy of small firm technology commercialization

    This article proposes a taxonomy of business models used by small, highly innovative firms focused on technology commercialization. Such firms disproportionately contribute to technological change in the US economy. The firms operate across industries and use a variety of technology platforms. Exploratory factor analysis of keyword occurrence on firm websites generated a taxonomy comprising: research…

  • Monitoring emerging technologies for technology planning using technical keyword based analysis from patent data

    This paper proposes technical keyword-based analysis of patents to monitor emerging technologies, and uses a keyword-based model in contents-based patent analysis. This study also presents methods to automatically select keywords and to identify the relatedness among them. After using text-mining tools and techniques to identify technical keywords, a technical keyword-context matrix is constructed. The relatedness…

  • The study of systems and methods for scientometric analysis of scientific publications

    This paper provides an overview of the methods and systems that are applied for scientometric analysis of scientific publications. Methods to identify promising research directions are described. The results of an experimental study aimed at determining the directions of scientific research within the subject area of “regenerative medicine” by using various methods are presented. Conclusions…