CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ON CONCIOUSNESS OF EXPERTS TO SOCIETY

Abstract

Visualizing through a text-mining approach for continuous foresight survey reports revealed chronological trends of experts' consciousness over 40 years. The direction of their consciousness largely changed after 2000 onward having stronger relationships with society, following subdivided and relatively incremental decades before 2000. Their consciousness to society has spread widely after 2000. The chronological changes of some frequently occurring words revealed some emerging fields and their necessity of societal embeddedness. However, there has still been a large inclination among the fields, which suggests an insufficiency of their consciousness to society. This has led us to have fears of essential seeds-needs incongruency in innovation ecosystems in Japan.