Science Research Management ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (7): 48-58.

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Measuring and visualizing Nano-Bio converging technologies and its enlightenment

Luan Chunjuan   

  1. School of Public Administration and Law, WISE Lab, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • Received:2010-07-28 Revised:2010-09-15 Online:2012-07-27 Published:2012-07-19

Abstract: It is a new research subject that measures and visualizes (NANO-BIO-INFO-COGN) NBIC converging technologies via patentometric and information visualization techniques. The results of measuring and visualizing of (NANO-BIO) NB converging technology indicates that NB converging technology demonstrates an upsurging trend during the period of 2000-2009; NB converging technology involves total 4,998 different sub-technology classifications, and focuses on test and detection of bacteria, fungi, and viruses; the hot topics of NB technology are nucleic acid/nucleic acids, carbon nanotube/carbon nanotubes, preparation method, biological sample, cancer treatment, target molecule, etc. Chinese government and S&T community should take measures to strengthen the collaboration between nano-biotechnology fields in order to expand the collaborative fields and topics, to cultivate more NB researchers, and to promote NB converging technology in China. The methodology of measuring and visualizing NB converging technology in here could be applied to other fields of converging technologies.

Key words: converging technology, NBIC, measurement, visualization, hot technology field, hot technology topic, CiteSpace

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