Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis
Even experts cannot be fully aware of all the promising developments in broad and complex fields of technology, such as renewable energy. Fortunately, there exist many diverse sources of information that report new technological developments, such as journal publications, news stories, and blogs. Ho...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
2016
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| author | Ziegler, Blaine Firat, Ayse Kaya Madnick, Stuart E. Woon, Wei Lee Camina, Steven Li, Clare Fogg, Erik |
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| description | Even experts cannot be fully aware of all the promising developments in broad and complex fields of technology, such as renewable energy. Fortunately, there exist many diverse sources of information that report new technological developments, such as journal publications, news stories, and blogs. However, the volume of data contained in these sources is enormous; it would be difficult for a human to read and digest all of this information – especially in a timely manner.
This paper describes a novel application of technology mining techniques to these diverse information sources to study, visualize, and identify the evolution of promising new technologies – a challenge we call “early growth technology analysis”. For the work reported herein, we use as inputs information about millions of published documents contained in sources such as SCIRCUS, Inspec, and Compendex.
We accomplish this analysis through the use of bibliometric analysis, consisting of three key steps:
1. Extract related keywords (from keywords in articles)
2. Determine the annual occurrence frequencies of these keywords
3. Identify those exhibiting rapid growth, particularly if starting from a low bas
To provide a focus for the experiments and subsequent discussions, a pilot study was conducted in the area of “renewable energy,” though the techniques and methods developed are neutral to the domain of study. Preliminary results and conclusions from the case study are presented and are discussed in the context of the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1028492019-04-09T18:37:40Z Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis Ziegler, Blaine Firat, Ayse Kaya Madnick, Stuart E. Woon, Wei Lee Camina, Steven Li, Clare Fogg, Erik Even experts cannot be fully aware of all the promising developments in broad and complex fields of technology, such as renewable energy. Fortunately, there exist many diverse sources of information that report new technological developments, such as journal publications, news stories, and blogs. However, the volume of data contained in these sources is enormous; it would be difficult for a human to read and digest all of this information – especially in a timely manner. This paper describes a novel application of technology mining techniques to these diverse information sources to study, visualize, and identify the evolution of promising new technologies – a challenge we call “early growth technology analysis”. For the work reported herein, we use as inputs information about millions of published documents contained in sources such as SCIRCUS, Inspec, and Compendex. We accomplish this analysis through the use of bibliometric analysis, consisting of three key steps: 1. Extract related keywords (from keywords in articles) 2. Determine the annual occurrence frequencies of these keywords 3. Identify those exhibiting rapid growth, particularly if starting from a low bas To provide a focus for the experiments and subsequent discussions, a pilot study was conducted in the area of “renewable energy,” though the techniques and methods developed are neutral to the domain of study. Preliminary results and conclusions from the case study are presented and are discussed in the context of the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. 2016-06-02T17:07:31Z 2016-06-02T17:07:31Z 2009-10 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102849 en_US ESD Working Papers;ESD-WP-2009-15 application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division |
| spellingShingle | Ziegler, Blaine Firat, Ayse Kaya Madnick, Stuart E. Woon, Wei Lee Camina, Steven Li, Clare Fogg, Erik Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis |
| title | Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis |
| title_full | Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Approach and Preliminary Results for Early Growth Technology Analysis |
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