Extending the knowledge base of foresight: The contribution of text mining

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 116, Issue , 2017, Pages 208-215

  Kayser, Victoria ^a,b   Blind, Knut ^b,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big data; Data analysis; Foresight; Roadmapping; Scenario development; Text mining

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EMERGING TOPICS; FORESIGHT; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; KNOWLEDGE BASE; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; ROADMAPPING; SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING;

DATA MINING; DATA SET; FUTURE PROSPECT; SOCIAL NETWORK; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85027927767     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.017     Document Type: Article

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