Introduction The natural disasters and climate anomalies caused by increasing global
carbon emissions have seriously threatened public health. To solve increasingly serious …

Energy storage technologies are a critical component of the rapidly growing global demand
for reliable electric power supply. Consequently, researchers in both academia and industry …

Although investments of R&D by government and firms have enlarged and the amount of
patents has increased rapidly, R&D almost fails to commercialize for various reasons. For …

The concept of the innovation ecosystem is receiving increasing attention worldwide.
Governments and industrialists are keen to foster innovation ecosystems to systematically …

Monitoring the emergence of emerging technologies helps managers and decision makers
to identify development trends in emerging technologies is crucial for government research …

The network of patents connected by citations is an evolving graph, which provides a
representation of the innovation process. A patent citing another implies that the cited patent …

Text mining methods allow researchers to investigate technical documents (tech mining)
and specifically explore patents for valuable information (patent mining. To the review …

How to detect and identify the future trends of emerging technologies as early as possible is
crucial for government R&D strategic planning and enterprises' practices. To avoid the …

Both private and public enterprises have great interest in prior knowledge of emerging
technologies to enable them make strategic investments. Technology forecasting offers a …

The bibliometrics research on nanotechnology highlights close interrelationships between
scientific and technological activities (S&T) in the field of nanotechnology. Notwithstanding …