title: Nano-enabled drug delivery: a research profile.
abstract: Nano-enabled drug delivery (NEDD) systems are rapidly emerging as a key area for nanotechnology application. Understanding the status and developmental prospects of this area around the world is important to determine research priorities, and to evaluate and direct progress. Global research publication and patent databases provide a reservoir of information that can be tapped to provide intelligence for such needs. Here, we present a process to allow for extraction of NEDD-related information from these databases by involving topical experts. This process incorporates in-depth analysis of NEDD literature review papers to identify key subsystems and major topics. We then use these to structure global analysis of NEDD research topical trends and collaborative patterns, inform future innovation directions.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  This paper describes the process of how to derive nano-enabled drug delivery-related information from global research and patent databases in an effort to perform comprehensive global analysis of research trends and directions, along with collaborative patterns.
authors.affiliation: School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Emeritus, Industrial & Systems Engineering, and Public Policy, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA; Technology Policy & Assessment Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA; R&D, Search Technology, Inc., Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: alan.porter@isye.gatech.edu.
authors.forename: Alan L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.affiliation: TEQNODE Limited and IFRIS-LATTS, Université de Paris-Est, France.
authors.forename: Douglas K R
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.affiliation: Division of Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Min Suk
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Shim
authors.affiliation: School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Collaboration patterns; Nano-enabled drug delivery (“NEDD”); Search strategy; Social network analysis; Subsystems