Anticipating converging industries using publicly available data

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 385-395

  Curran, Clive Steven ^a   Bröring, Stefanie ^b   Leker, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Chemical industry; Converging industries; Cosmeceuticals; Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods; Patent analysis; Phytosterols

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; COSMECEUTICALS; FUNCTIONAL FOODS; NUTRACEUTICALS; PATENT ANALYSIS;

ALCOHOLS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONVERGENCE; DATA SET; FOOD INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 76149130976     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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