Advanced Technology Evolution Pathways of Nanogenerators: A Novel Framework Based on Multi-Source Data and Knowledge Graph

As an emerging nano energy technology, nanogenerators have been developed rapidly, which makes it crucial to analyze the evolutionary pathways of advanced technology in this field to help estimate the development trend and direction. However, some limitations existed in previous studies. On the one hand, previous studies generally made use of the explicit correlation of data such as citation and cooperation between patents and papers, which ignored the rich semantic information contained in them. On the other hand, the progressive evolutionary process from scientific grants to academic papers and then to patents was not considered. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel framework based on a separated three-layer knowledge graph with several time slices using grant data, paper data, and patent data. Firstly, by the representation learning method and clustering algorithm, several clusters representing specific technologies in different layers and different time slices can be obtained. Then, by calculating the similarity between clusters of different layers, the evolutionary pathways of advanced technology from grants to papers and then to patents is drawn. Finally, this paper monitors the pathways of some developed technologies, which evolve from grants to papers and then to patents, and finds some emerging technologies under research.