Understanding, monitoring, and predicting the flow of knowledge between academia and industry is of critical importance for a variety of stakeholders, including governments, funding bodies, researchers, investors, and companies. To this purpose, we introduce ResearchFlow, an approach that integrates semantic technologies and machine learning to quantifying the diachronic behaviour of research topics across academia and industry. ResearchFlow exploits the novel Academia/Industry DynAmics (AIDA) Knowledge Graph in order to characterize each topic according to the frequency in time of the related i) publications from academia, ii) publications from industry, iii) patents from academia, and iv) patents from industry. This representation is then used to produce several analytics regarding the academia/industry knowledge flow and to forecast the impact of research topics on industry. We applied ResearchFlow to a dataset of 3.5M papers and 2M patents in Computer Science and highlighted several interesting patterns. We found that 89.8% of the topics first emerge in academic publications, which typically precede industrial publications by about 5.6 years and industrial patents by about 6.6 years. However this does not mean that academia always dictates the research agenda. In fact, our analysis also shows that industrial trends tend to influence academia more than academic trends affect industry. We evaluated ResearchFlow on the task of forecasting the impact of research topics on the industrial sector and found that its granular characterization of topics improves significantly the performance with respect to alternative solutions.

Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Motta, E. (2020). ResearchFlow: Understanding the Knowledge Flow Between Academia and Industry. In 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2020 (pp.219-236). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH [10.1007/978-3-030-61244-3_16].

ResearchFlow: Understanding the Knowledge Flow Between Academia and Industry

Osborne F
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2020

Abstract

Understanding, monitoring, and predicting the flow of knowledge between academia and industry is of critical importance for a variety of stakeholders, including governments, funding bodies, researchers, investors, and companies. To this purpose, we introduce ResearchFlow, an approach that integrates semantic technologies and machine learning to quantifying the diachronic behaviour of research topics across academia and industry. ResearchFlow exploits the novel Academia/Industry DynAmics (AIDA) Knowledge Graph in order to characterize each topic according to the frequency in time of the related i) publications from academia, ii) publications from industry, iii) patents from academia, and iv) patents from industry. This representation is then used to produce several analytics regarding the academia/industry knowledge flow and to forecast the impact of research topics on industry. We applied ResearchFlow to a dataset of 3.5M papers and 2M patents in Computer Science and highlighted several interesting patterns. We found that 89.8% of the topics first emerge in academic publications, which typically precede industrial publications by about 5.6 years and industrial patents by about 6.6 years. However this does not mean that academia always dictates the research agenda. In fact, our analysis also shows that industrial trends tend to influence academia more than academic trends affect industry. We evaluated ResearchFlow on the task of forecasting the impact of research topics on the industrial sector and found that its granular characterization of topics improves significantly the performance with respect to alternative solutions.
paper
Bibliographic data; Digital libraries; Knowledge graph; Scholarly data; Science of science; Topic detection; Topic ontology;
English
22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2020 - 16 September 2020 through 20 September 2020
2020
Keet, CM; Dumontier, M
22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2020
9783030612436
2020
12387 LNCS
219
236
none
Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Motta, E. (2020). ResearchFlow: Understanding the Knowledge Flow Between Academia and Industry. In 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2020 (pp.219-236). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH [10.1007/978-3-030-61244-3_16].
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