Item: The Production of Patents Related to Snow Avalanches and Notes for the Evolution of the Production of Knowledge Around Snow Avalanches in a Collaborative Environment
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Title: The Production of Patents Related to Snow Avalanches and Notes for the Evolution of the Production of Knowledge Around Snow Avalanches in a Collaborative Environment
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Grenoble – Chamonix Mont-Blanc - October 07-11, 2013
Authors:
- Luis G. López-Cobo [ Forest engineer and Master's degree in information and knowledge society, Canillo, Andorra ]
Date: 2013-10-07
Abstract: Scientific research on snow avalanches is relatively modern, yet in constant and rapid evolution, as the multiple disciplines involved in its development will, in turn, become more specialized and more technical. Patents are part of research and knowledge production. The scientific community and policy makers are increasingly interested in the production of knowledge collaboratively. Almost all of the research being conducted on snow avalanches uses some sort of technology, technique or instrumentation. One main objective of this study is to draw from the literature the many technologies, techniques and instrumentations that are being used in research related to snow avalanches. Thus, a textual analysis of the most significant literature in the field of snow avalanches was done. In this analysis, techniques, technologies and instrumentations have emerged. A patent search has been done in databases. Subsequently, patents were conceptualized. The proportion of applicants for patents is higher in industry than in universities. The measure of exploration of the ongoing sociocognitive transformations of science and technology systems present a useful tool to conduct a study to explore these transformations. It would be interesting for the scientific community, but also for the industry, to elaborate on Leydersdorff and Rafols methodology of concept mapping when applied to snow avalanche research, which would help in determining referents, in the determination of scientific collaboration and complementation in tracing the evolution of research both in universities, research funding agencies, and between the same themes or lines of research, as well as in the development of emerging research.
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-31.pdf
Language of Article: English
Presenter(s): Unknown
Keywords: avalanches, patents, knowledge, conceptual map, technology, collaboration
Page Number(s): 1066-1076
Subjects: snow avalanche avalanche mapping technology
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