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Horizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Center

The Horizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Department teaches students how to track and structure the global landscape of geoscience, AI, and adjacent research outputs, external institutional activity, technology paradigm shifts, and policy/funding signals using a unified ontology framework. Students practice (1) continuous multi-source signal collection and ontology-based structuring, (2) producing daily/weekly intelligence digests and signal alerts, and (3) early detection and interpretation of paradigm-shift indicators, graduating having single-handedly produced technology-intelligence briefings ready for organizational decision-making.

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Field-based Curriculum · 18

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Bibliometrics & Science of Science
Bibliometrics & Science of Science
Teaches bibliometrics — treating papers, citations and authors as countable obje…
Derek J. de Solla Price
Bibliometric Laws & Literature Scattering
Bibliometric Laws & Literature Scattering
Teaches Bradford's law of scattering — how the literature on a subject distribut…
Samuel C. Bradford
Scientific Productivity Laws (Lotka's Law)
Scientific Productivity Laws (Lotka's Law)
Teaches Lotka's law — the power-law distribution of author productivity — and it…
Alfred J. Lotka
Sociology of Science & Peer Recognition
Sociology of Science & Peer Recognition
We teach students to see science as a social institution as well as a body of kn…
Robert K. Merton
Information Retrieval & Documentation Theory
Information Retrieval & Documentation Theory
Teaches information retrieval — representing, indexing and ranking document coll…
Calvin Mooers
Social Network Analysis Foundations (Sociometry)
Social Network Analysis Foundations (Sociometry)
Teaches the foundations of social network analysis — relations as the unit of an…
Jacob L. Moreno
Information Visualization & Graphic Semiology
Information Visualization & Graphic Semiology
Grounded in Bertin's theory of visual variables, the course teaches the rules ma…
Jacques Bertin
Patent Analytics & Economics of Invention
Patent Analytics & Economics of Invention
Teaches quantitative analysis of patents — counts, citations and classes — to re…
Jacob Schmookler
Econometrics of Technology Diffusion
Econometrics of Technology Diffusion
Teaches the econometrics of technology diffusion — estimating S-shaped adoption …
Edwin Mansfield
Science Policy & the Republic of Science
Science Policy & the Republic of Science
Teaches how collective choices govern the direction of research, with Polanyi's …
Michael Polanyi
Paradigm Shift & Scientific Revolutions Theory
Paradigm Shift & Scientific Revolutions Theory
Teaches Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions — change by paradigm shift rathe…
Thomas Kuhn
Futures Studies & Scenario Method
Futures Studies & Scenario Method
Teaches futures studies methodology — constructing several internally consistent…
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Delphi Method & Expert Elicitation
Delphi Method & Expert Elicitation
Teaches the design logic of the Delphi technique — converging expert judgement t…
Norman Dalkey
Weak Signal Detection & Strategic Foresight
Weak Signal Detection & Strategic Foresight
The course teaches the concepts and methods of weak-signal detection — identifyi…
Francis J. Aguilar
Long-Wave Growth Cycles & Tech Paradigm Stages
Long-Wave Growth Cycles & Tech Paradigm Stages
Teaches Kondratiev waves and stage theories — reading long-run economic and tech…
W. W. Rostow
Content Analysis & Communication Research Methodology
Content Analysis & Communication Research Methodology
Teaches content analysis — the methodology for objective, systematic and quantit…
Bernard Berelson
Diffusion & Imitation Theory (Precursor to Innovation Diffusion)
Diffusion & Imitation Theory (Precursor to Innovation Diffusion)
Teaches Tarde's imitation and diffusion theory — formalising how innovations spr…
Gabriel Tarde
Power-Law Distributions & Scaling in Science/Tech Systems
Power-Law Distributions & Scaling in Science/Tech Systems
Teaches power-law distributions recurring across science and technology systems,…
Vilfredo Pareto