Mapping of scientific patenting: toward the development of ‘J-GLOBAL foresight’

Abstract

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) is in the process of building knowledge infrastructure by means of linking accumulated information assets to a variety of databases. It does not aim to develop knowledge data infrastructure based on proprietary format, but on an international standard format. JST is also in the process of creating ‘J-GLOBAL foresight’ [http://foresight.jst.go.jp (accessed June 2012)] in order to match up a variety of data such as results and indices of bibliometric analysis as well as of patent analysis derived from the knowledge infrastructure with applications like Google Maps and facilitate the visualisation of business information. This will contribute to help companies and institutions formulate business strategy based on the information obtained in the future. The former aims to be the bibliographic information version of the Data.gov, which discloses government data from the USA, while the latter seeks to be the Data-gov wiki version, which provides a demonstration by matching up governmental data with applications such as Google Maps.

Keywords:

• bibliometric analysis
• patent analysis
• foresight
• J-GLOBAL
• Data.gov
• Data-gov wiki
• cluster analysis

Notes on contributor

Mari Jibu is deputy manager at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). She received an MBA from McGill University in 2005 and a PhD in Medicine from Okayama University in 1999. Her professional experience includes the position as Associate Professor from 2000 to 2005 at Notre Dame Seishin University. She also worked as a Senior Research Fellow from 2005 to 2008 at NISTEP, MEXT.

Notes

1. http:/www.data.gov/ (11 October 2011).

2. http://www.science.gov/ (accessed 22 June 2012)

3. http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/wiki (accessed 11 October 2011).

4. http://jglobal.jst.go.jp/ (accessed 22 June 2012).

5. http://pr.jst.go.jp/Jdream2/ (accessed 22 June 2012).

6. http://www.amcharts.com/ (accessed 22 June 2012).

7. http://www.cytoscape.org/ (accessed 22 June 2012).

8. http://cytoscapeweb.cytoscape.org/ (accessed 22 June 2012).

9. http://baderlab.org/Software/MCODE (accessed 22 June 2012).

10. Here, Asian countries include the following: http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/asia.html.

11. http://sciencewatch.com/about/met/rf-methodology/.

12. Where patents in the field of biotechnology were concerned, only patents attached with one of the following IPC codes were chosen: A01H1/00, A01H4/00, A61K38/00, A61K39/00, A61K48/00, C02F3/34, C07G(11/00, 13/00, 15/00), C07K(4/00, 14/00, 16/00, 17/00, 19/00), C12M, C12N, C12P, C12Q, C12S, G01N27/327, G01N33/(53*, 54*, 55*, 57*, 68, 74, 76, 78, 88, 92) (OECD, Compendium of Patent Statistics, 2008).