Nano Mapper: an Internet knowledge mapping system for nanotechnology development |
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Authors: | Xin Li Daning Hu Yan Dang Hsinchun Chen Mihail C Roco Catherine A Larson Joyce Chan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA;(2) National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22230, USA |
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Abstract: | Nanotechnology research has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Advances in information technology enable efficient
investigation of publications, their contents, and relationships for large sets of nanotechnology-related documents in order
to assess the status of the field. This paper presents the development of a new knowledge mapping system, called Nano Mapper
(), which integrates the analysis of nanotechnology patents and research grants into a Web-based platform. The Nano Mapper
system currently contains nanotechnology-related patents for 1976–2006 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), and Japan Patent Office (JPO), as well as grant documents from the U.S. National Science
Foundation (NSF) for the same time period. The system provides complex search functionalities, and makes available a set of
analysis and visualization tools (statistics, trend graphs, citation networks, and content maps) that can be applied to different
levels of analytical units (countries, institutions, technical fields) and for different time intervals. The paper shows important
nanotechnology patenting activities at USPTO for 2005–2006 identified through the Nano Mapper system. |
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Keywords: | Nanotechnology Research and development (R& D) Patent analysis Grant analysis Bibliographic analysis Information visualization Self-organizing maps Citation network Data analysis tool |
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