This book aims to identify promising future developmental opportunities and applications for Tech Mining. Specifically, the enclosed contributions will pursue three converging themes:

• The increasing availability of electronic text data resources relating to Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I).
  
• The multiple methods that are able to treat this data effectively and incorporate means to tap into human expertise and interests.
  
• Translating those analyses to provide useful intelligence on likely future developments of particular emerging S&T...