Science-Technology Linkage: Quantitative and Qualitative Approach to Explore the Link Between Scientific Articles and Patents

The linkage between scientific and technological knowledge is how academic discoveries are translated into real-world applications. The study focuses on the relationship between scientific articles and patents, highlighting the importance of understanding how scientific knowledge transcends the academic environment and contributes to technological advancement and innovation. The methodology includes the following steps: defining the research topic and search terms; searching for scientific articles in the Web of Science database and patents in the Derwent Innovations Index database; merging and importing metadata into Bibliometrix; analyzing the performance of the corpus by identifying indicators for scientific articles and patents; identifying the most frequent keywords and coding them into unigrams; obtaining thematic maps of the bigrams of patent abstracts, articles, and patents/articles; selecting documents for qualitative analysis. About qualitative, we present a metaverse governance analysis model. To illustrate the methodology, research was conducted about the metaverse. The results included identifying motor, basic, niche, and emerging themes within the context of the metaverse. The study highlighted the importance of an integrated approach to understanding the linkage between science and technology, contributing to promoting innovation and disseminating knowledge.