Even experts cannot be fully aware of all the promising developments in broad and complex fields of technology, such as renewable energy. Fortunately, there exist many diverse sources of information that report new technological developments, such as journal publications, news stories, and...

This paper describes the application of data mining techniques for eludicating patterns and trends in technological innovation. Specifically, we focus on the use of bibliometric methods, viz techniques which focus on trends in the publication of text documents rather than the content of these...

We are investigating trend extrapolation using historical data from academic publications to forecast future technology directions. Many sources of academic information on the Web (e.g., Google Scholar, Scirus) provide a wealth of relevant information, yet they are not structured for...