GeoVerse Lab
← Innovation & International Collaboration Division

Horizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Center

Continuously tracks, collects, structures, and disseminates the global landscape of geoscience, AI, and adjacent research outputs, external institutional activity, technology paradigm shifts, and policy/funding signals, organized on a unified ontology framework. The resulting intelligence is packaged into daily/weekly digests and signal alerts and delivered in actionable form to all 10 divisions of GeoVerseLab.

Technology Transfer & Commercialization CenterInnovation Hub & Open R&D CenterStartup Incubation & Entrepreneurship CenterInternational Partnership & Cooperation CenterHorizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Center
Research Fields 18
Bibliometrics & Science of Science
📊 Bibliometrics & Science of Science
Bibliometrics is the quantitative study of the growth, structure, and communication of sch…
Bibliometric Laws & Literature Scattering
📚 Bibliometric Laws & Literature Scattering
Bibliometric scattering laws describe how publications on a given subject are distributed …
Scientific Productivity Laws (Lotka's Law)
✍️ Scientific Productivity Laws (Lotka's Law)
Lotka's law of scientific productivity (1926) states that the number of authors publishing…
Sociology of Science & Peer Recognition
🏛️ Sociology of Science & Peer Recognition
The sociology of science studies scientific communities as social systems: how norms regul…
Information Retrieval & Documentation Theory
🔍 Information Retrieval & Documentation Theory
Information retrieval (IR) is the discipline concerned with representing, indexing, and se…
Social Network Analysis Foundations (Sociometry)
🕸️ Social Network Analysis Foundations (Sociometry)
Sociometry, founded by Jacob L. Moreno in the 1930s, is the study and measurement of socia…
Information Visualization & Graphic Semiology
🎨 Information Visualization & Graphic Semiology
Graphic semiology is the theory of how marks on a plane encode data, founded by Jacques Be…
Patent Analytics & Economics of Invention
📜 Patent Analytics & Economics of Invention
Patent analytics is the quantitative study of patent documents — counts, citations, classi…
Econometrics of Technology Diffusion
📈 Econometrics of Technology Diffusion
The econometrics of technology diffusion estimates how, and how fast, new technologies spr…
Science Policy & the Republic of Science
🧭 Science Policy & the Republic of Science
Science policy studies how collective choices — funding priorities, institutional design, …
Paradigm Shift & Scientific Revolutions Theory
🔄 Paradigm Shift & Scientific Revolutions Theory
Paradigm theory, set out in Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962…
Futures Studies & Scenario Method
🔮 Futures Studies & Scenario Method
Futures studies is the systematic, explicitly non-prophetic examination of possible, proba…
Delphi Method & Expert Elicitation
🗳️ Delphi Method & Expert Elicitation
The Delphi method is a structured procedure for eliciting and refining collective judgemen…
Weak Signal Detection & Strategic Foresight
📡 Weak Signal Detection & Strategic Foresight
Weak signal detection is the practice of identifying early, fragmentary indicators of stra…
Long-Wave Growth Cycles & Tech Paradigm Stages
🌊 Long-Wave Growth Cycles & Tech Paradigm Stages
Long-wave growth theory holds that capitalist economies evolve through extended cycles — r…
Content Analysis & Communication Research Methodology
🗂️ Content Analysis & Communication Research Methodology
Content analysis is a research technique for the objective, systematic, and quantitative d…
Diffusion & Imitation Theory (Precursor to Innovation Diffusion)
🌀 Diffusion & Imitation Theory (Precursor to Innovation Diffusion)
Imitation theory, formulated by Gabriel Tarde in Les lois de l'imitation (1890), holds tha…
Power-Law Distributions & Scaling in Science/Tech Systems
📐 Power-Law Distributions & Scaling in Science/Tech Systems
A power-law distribution assigns probability to a quantity in proportion to that quantity …