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Tech Mining

Tech mining is the text mining of science and technology information—the publication, patent, and proposal databases that record the world's research and invention—to extract competitive technical intelligence. Coined by Alan Porter and Scott Cunningham, it turns large, fielded bibliographic corpora into actionable answers about who is doing what, where, with whom, and along which trajectories. By extracting entities such as authors, institutions, countries, keywords, and assignees and analysing their co-occurrence over time, tech mining profiles emerging technologies, maps research landscapes, and supports R&D management and innovation policy decisions.

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Tech Mining (Text Mining of Science and Technology Information)

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Porter, A. L., & Cunningham, S. W. (2005). Tech Mining: Exploiting New Technologies for Competitive Advantage. Wiley. · ISBN 9780471475675
Porter, A. L. (2007). How tech mining can enhance R&D management. Research-Technology Management, 50(2), 15-20. · DOI 10.1080/08956308.2007.11657424

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