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Friday 28 June
The Collaboration Spotting Project Vision, anticipated developments and collaborations
TTO Circle meeting at CERN
Jean-Marie Le Goff, PhD, DPhil
Senior physicist
CERN
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Intro to Collaboration Spotting
How does it work?
What problem does it solve?
What’s next?
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Developed at CERN by Physicists
• We developed the program to help us figure out who the key players at the cutting
edge of the 100s of research fields CERN is active in are.
• Realised this could be much more widely applicable – which is where you can help!
The Team (06/13):
• Adam AGOCS
• Sotirios FRAGKISKOS
• Jean-Marie LE GOFF (PL)
• Eirik SKOGSTAD
The Collaboration Spotting Project
What is Collaboration Spotting?
Software developed at CERN
Identifies relationships between institutions and visualises them
Visualise clusters, who works with whom and who is active in your field of interest
Find closely related topics and hidden connections
Powerful data-mining and visualisation algorithms can be expanded to new areas
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Sifts Publications and Patents: “Who works with Whom?”
In principle, can include any kind of databases where “authorship” can be
attributed to different organisations/entities – what else would you like to see here?
The Collaboration Spotting Project
How Collaboration Spotting Works
Data-mining from patent,
publication etc. databases
(see last slide)
Whose names appear
together a lot?
Which keywords appear in the
same kinds of clusters?
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Using Social Network Analysis and Graph Theory to Visualise Complex Relationships Easily
Pretty, huh?
• Assign a value to how correlated each two data points (nodes) are, e.g. “how many papers
have these two institutes jointly published?”
• In a network graph, data points with a large degree of correlation end up clustering
together.
• Additionally: thicker connections (edges) = stronger correlation, larger dots = more
prominent data points.
• Can spot key players and relationships at a glance, detect underlying patterns.
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Ex: Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD) – 393 Publications
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Ex: MPGD – Publications – Key players
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Ex: MPGD – Publications – Key players - Centrality
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Ex: Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD) - 94 Patents
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Some features
Researchers: find relevant collaborators
Industry: target less-contested areas for R&D
Lawyers: Patent landscapes
Investors: Spot opportunities and buyers
Basically anyone who wants a rapid, easily digestible summary of who is who in an area of interest and all the hidden links between them.
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Find new collaboration Technology: Medipix for pixel detector
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Use case: • Institution having developed a new photon detection material
• Look for Key players: Medipix + Bump bonding Contacts with publications
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Positioning an organisation wrt a technology: CERN wrt MPGD
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Finding other technologies of an organisation
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Finding other technologies of an organisation (2)
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Impact of an organisation’s publications (citations)
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Impact • Size of node represents number of publications/patents
• Colour of node represents its impact factor. Darker nodes are cited more than lighter-coloured ones.
Strongly cited
Weakly cited
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Positioning a RI wrt to a technology ex: Germanium detectors
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No patent for CNRS-IN2P3
Publications Patents
43 patents
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Looking closer to collaborations
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Assessing the impact of an event
Topical events, technical workshops and conferences are prone to foster collaborations
Ex: Technology Academia meets industry on Silicon- Photomultiplier
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Organisation name Pubs 2010 Pubs 2013 ΔP
MPI 13 27 14
PSI 6 8 2
Photek_Ltd 0 1 1
Pulsar_Enterprise 6 6 0
STMicroelectronics 11 19 8
Univ_AGH_Sci_&_Technol 1 1 0
Univ_Glasgow 0 1 1
Univ_Heidelberg 2 9 7
Univ_Insubria 1 5 4
Univ_Leicester 0 1 1
Univ_Napoli_Federico_2 1 4 3
Univ_Oxford 1 2 1
Univ_Pisa 19 31 12
Univ_Roma_1 2 6 4
Univ_Siena 1 2 1
Univ_Surrey 1 2 1
Univ_Tech_Delft 4 14 10
Univ_Udine 0 1 1
Organisation name Pubs 2010 Pubs 2013 ΔP
CERN 11 16 5
CIEMAT 0 3 3
CNRS-IN2P3 6 11 5
CPTA_Moscow 2 2 0
CSIC 3 7 4
DESY 6 14 8
EPFL 3 6 3
ETHZ 1 2 1
FBK 11 23 12
FNAL 4 11 7
GSI 0 3 3
INAF 9 10 1
INFN 51 91 40
KETEK_GmbH 1 1 0
Kernfys_Versneller_Inst 0 2 2
No increase Increase
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Tracking tech. evolution for participants Timeline
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Si-PM Collaboration development (INFN)
2013 2010
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Si-PM Collaboration development details (INFN)
2013 2010
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Si-PM: New collaborations (2010 – 2013)
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Maturity of a technology within an organisation
3D-interconnections for chip packaging
• Three technologies under development
Interposers
Through Silicon Vias (TSV)
Solid-Liquid Inter Diffusion (SLID)
Looking at collaborations via publications and comparing with the patent landscape
• Ex: Micron_Techology_Inc (US-based)
Interposers
SLID
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The Collaboration Spotting Project
Maturity of a technology in an organisation: (3D-interconnections)
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SLID: Micron_Technology_Inc have no patents
Interposers: Micron have 47 patents
Inte
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LID
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What’s next?
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Initialisation: populating new technology info
The Collaboration Spotting Project
What’s next?
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Technology Watch: monitoring and
updating technology info User services: XML queries
The Collaboration Spotting Project
Servicing many domains
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Data sources EMM Domain Data Provider
Technology Watch central service: monitoring and updating technology info for all domains
Particle Physics domain Domain 2 Domain 3
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Thank you for your attention
