Flash Course:
Technological watch and prospective

Bibliometric Landscapes

Prof. Mauricio CAMARGO

Assist Prof. Fabio CRUZ

August 6, 2025

Agenda for today

• Flash Course: Technology Landscape
• Goal for you 🦸‍♂ 🦸🏻‍♀️!
• Vosviewer:
  Landscape
  visualization

Pedagogical goal of this afternoon

1. 🧠 Knowledge :
   • Use the patent databases to gain a semantic world of your problematic.
2. 🔨 Know-how :
   • Search on pertinent patent and scientific databases such as WoS
3. ✍Competence :
   • Be able to make a landscape visualisation of set of documents from a research question.

Before, We need to understand how Technology Emergency is made …

Flash Course: Technology Landscape

Technology Readiness → Maturity

The industrial
emergence mapping framework

Technology Readiness → Levels

Framework developed in the Aeronautical field.

Technology Readiness Levels (TRL)

Technology Readiness → The Valley of Death

Technology Readiness → Challenges TRL4 - TRL7

Technology Readiness → Challenges TRL4 - TRL7

• There is a lack of tools that can provide insights into technology-integration issues at an early R&D phase (TRL 1-5).
• This results in a mismatch between information need and availability and complicates decision-making.
• The process requires an interdisciplinary approach. The right combination of skills and expertise may not always be available

Technology Readiness → Evolution

Scientific databases: Web Of Science (WoS)

• WoS indexes a wide range of academic publications → peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, patents…
• Citation Tracking → 📈
• Research Analytics → 🏛️🌍
• Curated Content → 📋 Minimal Criteria of indexation
• Interdisciplinary Reach → ⚙️Engineering to 👥 Social Sciences
• Developed by Clarivate → 🔒💰

UNAL → Scientific & Patent databases

https://bases.unal.edu.co/

Web of science → Scientific & Patent databases

Core Collections

Derwent Innovations Index

What does a patent look like?

Why a patent is pertinent?

Goal for you 🦸‍♂ 🦸🏻‍♀️!

Exploration of Scientific/Patent databases

Exploration of Scientific/Patent databases

1. Go to Web of Science and make a research for Patents/Scientific Articles!
2. Explore the domaine of patents using the WoS tools.
3. Select at least 1 pertinent patent/scientific article regarding your Idea!

So..

Exemples of Patent databases

Google Patents

🔗 https://patents.google.com/

Espacenet

🔗 https://worldwide.espacenet.com/

Web Of Science Patent Database

⚠️ For those Universities that have access!

Web Of Science Patent Database

1. 🔗 Access to UL
   https://bases.unal.edu.co/

2. Search for Web Of Science

 

Web of Science Interface → Patent collection

• Select the
  Derwent Innovation Index
  database

 

Web of Science Interface → Simple research mode

• Structure your
  Search Equation

 

Web of Science Interface → Results

• See the
  Results and Filters

 

Web of Science Interface → Analyse Results

• See
  Analyze Results

• Explore the differents visualisation options

  • Subject areas
  • Assignee Names
  • Inventors
  • etc …

 

Web of Science Interface → Export Results

• See
  Export Results → Tab Delimited File

 

Web of Science Interface → Sign In

• Make an Account for
  Web Of Science

 

Web of Science Interface → Sign In

• Use your Account to Connect
  Web Of Science

 

Web of Science Interface → Export Results

• See
  Export Results → Custom Selection

 

Web of Science Interface → Export Results

• Select
  All custom elements

 

Web of Science Interface → Export Results

• Make attention to
  Export the 1 to 1000 Elements max

 

Web of Science Interface → Download Results

• Download the database
  <Filename.txt>

This is all for this part 🙂

 

Web of Science Interface → Filter Patents

• Filter the Patent based on a
  *Criteria*

 

Vosviewer:
Landscape
visualization

Scientific Network visualization

⬇️ https://www.vosviewer.com/

Small introduction to VosViewer

• Focus on visualization of scientometric networks
• Support for large number of data sources
• Text mining functionality
• Advanced visualization features
• Relatively easy to use
• Limited analysis options
• Developed at CWTS

Purpose of VOSviewer tool

• 🧠 Knowledge :
  • Use the patent databases to gain a semantic world of your problematic based on the Titles of the patents.
• ✍Competence :
  • Be able to make a landscape visualisation of set of documents from a research question.

We use the database download from Web Of Science 📜

VOSviewer → First Steps

🎯 Goal:

• Load the Data
• Create a Visualisation

 

Analysing Patents Titles

VOSviewer → Load database

• Open VOSviewer on your PC

• Click on CREATE

• Add
  Create a Map based on text data

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Type of database

• Select
  Bibliographic database file

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Type of database

• Select
  Web Of Science

• Seek your <Filename.txt> on your PC

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Load of database

• Load your <Filename.txt> on your PC

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Title Field

• Select
  <Title field>

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Title Field

• Select
  Binary Counting

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Number of Occurences

• Adjuts the
  Number of Occurences

⚠️ Attention to the possible keywords that pass the filter

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Keywords

• Listing of the
  Keywords

⚠️ You can erase keywords if neccesary

• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Visualization

• Select the
  YES
  
• NEXT

 

VOSviewer → Visualization 🙂

Network Visualization

 

Density Visualization

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