Advanced Methods: Opportunities and Potential of the Internet of Things for Solving Social Issues

Yasutomo Takano and Yuya Kajikawa

Chapter 19 in Innovation Discovery:Network Analysis of Research and Invention Activity for Technology Management, 2018, pp 531-558 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to change society, although it is a general purpose technology and its concrete application, value, and feasibility are still obscure. In this study, we explored the plausible social issues to which IoT solutions can be applied. First, we extracted promising research areas of IoT by measuring text correlations between citation networks of papers and those of patents. Then, semantic linkages between extracted research areas and social issues were investigated. In this research, we targeted social issues proposed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, WEHAB (i.e., water, energy, health, agriculture, and biodiversity). On the basis of the results, we discuss potentials and challenges for IoT to solve social issues.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Technology Management; Patents; Innovation; Scientometric; Network Analysis; Network Tools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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