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Area of Science:

  • Technology and Innovation Management
  • Computational Social Science
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Assessing innovation diffusion beyond patent data is crucial for economic growth and evidence-based policymaking.
  • Early identification of innovation trends requires robust analytical methods for textual data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and apply the Paragraph Vector Topic Model (PVTM) for analyzing innovation diffusion from technology news articles.
  • To evaluate PVTM as an alternative to existing topic models for uncovering latent topics and their temporal dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized PVTM on 170,000 technology news articles spanning 20 years.
  • Represented documents in a semantic space to capture latent topics.
  • Employed Gaussian mixture modeling for topic interpretation and measured topic importance over time.

Main Results:

  • PVTM effectively identifies innovation-related topics and their diffusion patterns in news data.
  • PVTM demonstrates credibility as an alternative to traditional topic models for news article analysis.
  • PVTM-derived diffusion indicators show Granger causality with Google Trends indices for specific topics.

Conclusions:

  • PVTM provides valuable insights into innovation diffusion dynamics using readily available textual data.
  • The model offers a viable approach for evidence-based policymaking to foster technological progress.
  • PVTM's ability to predict trends suggests its utility in economic forecasting and strategic planning.