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Mapping Korea’s national R&D domain of robot technology by using the co-word analysis

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In this paper, we show a “Strategic Diagram” of the robot technology by applying the co-word analysis to the metadata of Korean related national R&D projects in 2001. The strategic diagram shows the evolutionary trends of the specific R&D domain and relational patterns between subdomains. We may use this strategic diagram to support both the strategic planning and the R&D Program.

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Lee, B., Jeong, YI. Mapping Korea’s national R&D domain of robot technology by using the co-word analysis. Scientometrics 77, 3–19 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1819-4

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