Category: Strategic planning

  • Design of TOD Model for Information Analysis and Future Prediction

    Analyzing mass information and supporting insight based on analysis results are very important work but it needs much effort and time. Information analysis and future prediction about science and IT filed data are also very critical tasks for researchers, government officers, businessman, etc. Therefore, in this paper, we propose technology opportunity discovery (TOD) model based…

  • Upgrading the Quality of Science: Does Funding Source Matter?

    Extended Abstract – MINING NOVEL DATA SOURCES session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s): Abdullah Gök and Philip Shapira (University of Manchester) This paper examines the effect of differential and multiple funding on the quality of science in the Czech Republic. We explore several propositions. Firstly, we investigate whether European Union research sponsorship is…

  • Predicting Breakthrough Papers: Ranking Statistics, Patterns, and Visualization

    Extended Abstract – NEW INDICATORS session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s): Ilya V. Ponomarev, Duane E. Williams, Joshua Schnell, Laurel L. Haak Research progress may be either gradual or abrupt. While both ways are important, major advances in science strongly depend upon explosive breakthrough discoveries. Currently, analyses of emerging or breakthrough areas are rarely…

  • “Up-to-down” Science & Technology planning: a new approach based on patent data and technology roadmapping

    Extended Abstract – FUTURE-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s): Ying Guo, Lu Huang, Yi Zhang and Donghua Zhu (Beijing Institute of Technology); Alan L.Porter (Georgia Institute of Technology) Currently, endless new technologies emerge. If one could map out Science & Technology (S&T)Planning correctly on the national level, innovation shareholders would remain…