Technological Innovation: New Study Sponsored by NSF Takes Socioeconomic, Managerial Factors into Account

Walsh, John

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“…The impact of discoveries may extend beyond the domain of science and may be crucial steps towards technological applications, and to innovations and products. In line with Grupp and Schmoch (1992) several other well-known studies for instance the Hindsight study (Isenson, 1969), the studies conducted by Jewkes et al (1958), studies (Heilbron, 1972;IIT Research Institute, 1968 by the Illinois Institute of Technology Research investigating the research and development process leading to innovation, the Battelle study (Globe et al, 1973), the Retrosight project (Wooding, 2007) and also the TRACES study (Walsh, 1973) searched for the impact of scientific discoveries on the development of technology 2 .…”

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Searching for new breakthroughs in science: How effective are computerised detection algorithms?

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Tijssen

Raan

2019

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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In this study we design, develop, implement and test an analytical framework and measurement model to detect scientific discoveries with 'breakthrough' characteristics. To do so we have developed a series of computerized search algorithms that data mine large quantities of research publications. These algorithms facilitate early-stage detection of 'breakout' papers that emerge as highly cited and distinctive and are considered to be potential breakthroughs.Combining computer-aided data mining with decision heuristics, enabled us to assess structural changes within citation patterns with the international scientific literature. In our case studies we applied a citation impact time window of 24-36 months after publication of each research paper.In this paper, we report on our test results, in which five algorithms were applied to the entire Web of Science database. We analysed the citation impact patterns of all research articles from the period 1990-1994. We succeeded in detecting many papers with distinctive impact profiles (breakouts). A small subset of these breakouts is classified as 'breakthroughs': Nobel Prize research papers; papers occurring in Nature's Top-100 Most Cited Papers Ever; papers still (highly) cited by review papers or patents; or those frequently mentioned in today's social media. We also compare the outcomes of our algorithms with the results of a 'baseline' detection algorithm developed by Redner in 2005, which selects the world's most highly cited 'hot papers'.The detection rates of the algorithms vary, but overall, they present a powerful tool for tracing breakout papers in science. The wider applicability of these algorithms, across all science fields, has not yet been ascertained. Whether or not our early-stage breakout papers present a 'breakthrough' remains a matter of opinion, where input from subject experts is needed for verification and confirmation, but our detection approach certain helps to limit the search domain to trace and track important emerging topics in science.

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Searching for new breakthroughs in science: How effective are computerised detection algorithms?

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Tijssen

Raan

2019

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…The impact of scientific discoveries may extend beyond the domain of science and may be crucial steps towards technological applications, and to innovations and products. Several well-known landmark studies, such as the Hindsight study [3], the studies conducted by Jewkes et al [4], studies performed by the IIT Research Institute [5,6] investigating the research and development process leading to innovation, the Battelle study [7], the Retrosight project [8] and the TRACES study [9], searched for the impact of scientific discoveries on the development of technology. Common to these and other studies is the conclusion that it can take many years before a scientific discovery finds its way into new or adapted technology and that the development of science and technology (S&T) do not follow a linear evolutionary path.…”

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Disambiguating the definitions of the concept ‘transformative innovation’

Pang

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Journal of Information Science

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The definition of ‘transformative innovation’ is still ambiguous, making it difficult to develop more targeted strategies for steering scientific and technological innovation. In this study, taking extant academic publications as our research object, we used topic extraction and visualisation tools to explore the intersections and differences among transformative and other innovative concepts. The correlation degrees among the concepts related to ‘transformative innovation’ were used to distinguish the relationships among concepts related to ‘breakthrough innovation’ and ‘disruptive innovation’. We further analysed the definitional differences among ‘transformative innovation’, ‘emerging technology’ and ‘groundbreaking research’. The results showed that the concepts of ‘breakthrough innovation’ and ‘disruptive innovation’ can be integrated into the scope of ‘transformative innovation’. However, the definitions of ‘transformative innovation’, ‘emerging technology’ and ‘research frontier’ had their distinct characteristics. ‘Transformative innovation’ focused on major impactful technological changes. ‘Emerging technology’ focused on novel technology and its promoting. ‘Research frontier’ focused on research activities taking place at the frontiers of knowledge. Therefore, distinctive science and technology (S&T) policies are needed for the different types of innovation. This article introduces a novel multidimensional method to place the different concepts associated with ‘transformative innovation’ into a unified framework. This framework is expected to support policymakers in their S&T policymaking, and it would aid the work of S&T researchers.

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Technological Innovation: New Study Sponsored by NSF Takes Socioeconomic, Managerial Factors into Account

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Searching for new breakthroughs in science: How effective are computerised detection algorithms?

Searching for new breakthroughs in science: How effective are computerised detection algorithms?

Disambiguating the definitions of the concept ‘transformative innovation’

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