A systematic approach for integrated trend analysis—The case of etching

Understanding technology development trends is of critical importance to countries, industries and enterprises to be sustainable in global competition. Attempts have been made to establish trend analysis by bibliometric and patent analyses. Also text-mining uncovers hidden and important information...

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Published inTechnological forecasting & social change Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 386 - 407
Main Authors Wu, Feng-Shang, Hsu, Chun-Chi, Lee, Pei-Chun, Su, Hsin-Ning
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Inc 01.03.2011
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects
Bibliometric analysis
Bibliometrics
Carriers
Competition
Data mining
Etching
Globalization
Knowledge
Patent analysis
Studies
Sustainability
Sustainable Development
Technological change
Technological Innovations
Text-mining
Trend analysis
Trends
Etching
Text-mining
Bibliometric analysis
Patent analysis
Trend analysis
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Summary:Understanding technology development trends is of critical importance to countries, industries and enterprises to be sustainable in global competition. Attempts have been made to establish trend analysis by bibliometric and patent analyses. Also text-mining uncovers hidden and important information from structured or unstructured documents which serve as knowledge carriers. This study aims to provide a systematic approach for integrated trend analysis that takes into account bibliometric analysis, patent analysis and text-mining analysis. Etching is selected as the case study for integrating trend analysis method proposed in this study. Also, validity and applicability of the integrated analysis are evaluated.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2010.08.006
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ISSN:0040-1625
1873-5509
DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2010.08.006