Tracking the evolution of research in waste recycling science (WRS) can be valuable for environmental agencies, as well as for recycling businesses. Maps of science are visual, easily readable representations of the cognitive structure of a branch of science, a particular area of research or the global spectrum of scientific production. They are generally built upon evidence collected from reliable sources of information, such as patent and scientific publication databases. This study uses the methodology developed by to make a "double overlay map" of WRS upon a basemap reflecting the cognitive structure of all journal-published science, for the years 2005 and 2010. The analysis has taken into account the cognitive areas where WRS articles are published and the areas from where it takes its intellectual nourishing, paying special attention to the growing trends of the key areas. Interpretation of results lead to the conclusion that extraction of energy from waste will probably be an important research topic in the future, along with developments in general chemistry and chemical engineering oriented to the recovery of valuable materials from waste. Agricultural and material sciences, together with the combined economics, politics and geography field, are areas with which WRS shows a relevant and ever increasing cognitive relationship.
The information contained in patent databases can be used to perceive the innovation strategy of a region. This paper proposed measures on patent analysis as method of measuring the flow of industrial knowledge in a region. The use of Tech-mining applied to the patent and the utility models databases which content the innovation requested by the companies in the area, permits visualized the flow of industrial knowledge along the years. It is possible to detect of knowledge transfers from traditional emergent sectors to emergent business. Although the results of one specific region case may be not be generally applicable due to the size of the region, this paper proposed a useful tool for visualizing the industrial innovation knowledge using Patents as indicator and techmining as analyzed tool. The knowledge of the industrial innovation flows, enables the establishing of vital conclusions as regards the finding of a definition for the innovation strategy of a region.
La información contenida en bases de datos de patentes puede ser usada para visualizar la estrategia de innovación de una región. El trabajo denominado PATENTALAVA se basa en el uso de la patentometria, técnica en estado embrionario, para estudiar la evolución de los flujos de conocimiento interindustrial. Este conocimiento permite el establecimiento de políticas eficaces que mejoren la competitividad industrial de la región. En Patentalava se analizan las estadísticas de los registros de patentes y modelos de utilidad solicitados por empresas de la zona, a continuación se visualiza la evolución innovadora por sectores empresariales y se llega a representar mediante análisis Cluster las áreas emergentes de patentabilidad así como sus relaciones. La detección de los transvases de conocimiento desde sectores tradicionales a sectores emergentes permite establecer conclusiones vitales cuando se trata de definir la estrategia de innovación en una región.
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