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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 Center Innovation Hub & Open R&D Center Startup Incubation & Entrepreneurship Center International Partnership & Cooperation Center Horizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Center

Research Fields 18

📊 Bibliometrics & Science of Science

Bibliometrics is the quantitative study of the growth, structure, and communication of sch…

📚 Bibliometric Laws & Literature Scattering

Bibliometric scattering laws describe how publications on a given subject are distributed …

✍️ 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

The sociology of science studies scientific communities as social systems: how norms regul…

🔍 Information Retrieval & Documentation Theory

Information retrieval (IR) is the discipline concerned with representing, indexing, and se…

🕸️ 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

Graphic semiology is the theory of how marks on a plane encode data, founded by Jacques Be…

📜 Patent Analytics & Economics of Invention

Patent analytics is the quantitative study of patent documents — counts, citations, classi…

📈 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 studies how collective choices — funding priorities, institutional design, …

🔄 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 is the systematic, explicitly non-prophetic examination of possible, proba…

🗳️ 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 is the practice of identifying early, fragmentary indicators of stra…

🌊 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 is a research technique for the objective, systematic, and quantitative d…

🌀 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

A power-law distribution assigns probability to a quantity in proportion to that quantity …