Nano-Enabled Drug Delivery: Subsystems, Hot Topics and Future Innovation Pathways
| Title: | Nano-Enabled Drug Delivery: Subsystems, Hot Topics and Future Innovation Pathways |
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| Format: | Chapter |
| Publication Date: | 2014 |
| Description: | © 2014 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.Nano-Enabled Drug Delivery (NEDD) systems attract attention as a key nano application area. As an emerging scientific and medical field, many researchers and investors want to understand the status and prospects of developments in this domain. Capturing the global developments of NEDD is a challenge, since it is a combination of various technology R and D lines, with a variety of application areas. To help address this challenge, a variety of publication and patent databases provide a reservoir of information on research activities that can be "data mined." The challenge is smart extraction of what is relevant, and how to discern relationships to inform R and D decisions. In this chapter we describe how to do such smart extraction and present a three step process: (1) to articulate the search strategy for the gathering of data, (2) the data capture and sensemaking (using the Web of Science and MEDLINE databases) and (3) transformation of these findings into a Technology Roadmap (TRM) tracking NEDD development. |
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| Citation: | Nanotechnology: Recent Trends, Emerging Issues and Future Directions. 25 - 44. |
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