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  • Publication | 2021
Weak signals in Science and Technologies - Weak signals in 2020 Technologies
Text Mining
Weak signals 2020 report cover

This report presents a list of 75 individual weak signals in science and technology development in 2020. In addition, 4 clusters of weak signals have also been detected and are reported. These early signs of emerging technologies or products were detected using text mining, clustering techniques and scientometrics indicators applied on a corpus of peer-reviewed scientific publications.

A dashboard is at the disposal of the reader to further explore the weak signals:

https://www.timanalytics.eu/TimTechPublic/dashboard/index.jsp#/space/s_1597?ds=126842