Horizon Scanning – Know the future of science today
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Horizon Scanning
Background
Horizon ScanningA novel approach to scanning the scientific, technical and medical horizon for signs of
future emergence.
Horizon Scanning
BackgroundIn the global life sciences
marketplace,
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the ability to detect emerging technologies that are still in their
infancy is a critical markerfor success.
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Whether it’s identifying early-stage in-licensing or acquisition opportunities,
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Identifying emerging science and technology
for therapeutic and product areas,
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Or even increasing the efficiency of existing
R&D pipelines.
7
1.5Mbiomedical papers
per year
However, with the rising pace ofglobal research output,
2.7Mpatents applications
Per year
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too much data is being produced for human efforts alone to interpret.
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Analysts need new approaches to enable them to continually scan for signs of scientific
and technical emergence.
Horizon Scanning
BackgroundComplete. Continual. Unbiased.
Meta Horizon ScanningPredictive early awareness for science/IP
Horizon Scanning allows innovation-driven companies to scan the entire corpus of
scientific and patent literature for signs of technical emergence.
Identifying the emerging research being worked on by the next big PIs, academic medical centers and early-stage start-ups.
Identifying early emergences in drug discovery, drug therapy and translational medicine.
Identifying opportunities for drug repositioning, repurposing, and rescue.
Here are just a few applications:
Meta Horizon Scanning was originally developed for a U.S. National
Intelligence Program.
IARPA
The goal was to create “a crystal ball for science and technology.”
IARPA
Horizon Scanning
Background• 5 year U.S. intelligence program, SRI
International was prime contractor
• Goal - enable early reliable detection and
monitoring of technical emergence (Horizon
Scanning) through machine intelligence
• Scientific and patent literature (domestic
and foreign)
Past SRI Companies: SIRI (acq: Apple), TempoAI (acq: SalesForce), Redwood Robotics (acq: Google), Trap!T, Nuance
Meta Horizon Scanning is built upona central hypothesis:
Meta Horizon Scanning is built upona central hypothesis:
Real-world processes of technical emergence leave discernable traces in the public, scientific,
and patent literature.*
* Murdick, D.A “Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition.” Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/fuse Retrieved 19 July 2016.
Since change is a significant signalof emergence,
then it should follow that those changes could be mapped through semantic and
linguistic patterns in the literature,*
* Alexander, Jeffrey “A Reasoning-based Framework for the Computation of Technical Emergence.” SRI International. GTM 2013. 25September 2013. p8.
and subtle signals of emerging technical areas could be detected years in advance.
Meta Horizon Scanning leverages world-leading AI to scan the scientific and technical
horizon at a speed and scale that far exceed human ability. *
Hemsoth, Nicole. “Why the Golden Age of Machine Learning is just Beginning.” The Next Platform. 20 October, 2015. http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/10/20/why-the-golden-age-of-machine-learning-begins-now/ Retrieved 18 July 2016.
However, the key to success in Horizon Scanning is not just in the powerof the algorithms, it is in having
access to the content.
Over the past five years, Meta has created relationships with 40 of the world’s leading
scientific, technical and medical publishers,
effectively creating the largest commercial STM text-mining collection on Earth.
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Type Domain Language Volume Coverage
Closed-accessfull-text articles
Science and technical literature English 28M 1900 - 2016
Open–accessrepositories
Science and technical literature English 26M 1980 - 2016
US Patent andTrademark Office
Patentdatabase English 9.7M (app)
4.9M (grant) ~1980-2016
$850M$850M In Peer-ReviewedResearch Content
Meta’s content sources
In exchange for their content, publishers leverage Meta’s AI to enable article discovery across Meta’s entire platform,
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putting more journals and papers into the hands of researchers and innovation-driven companies around the globe.
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With Meta Horizon Scanning, innovation teams have a privileged view of the future trajectories
of science and technology.
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that will keep them ahead.
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