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study have indicated that knowledge bottlenecks
may exist, in particular were technological support
could be needed. The transmutation of science into
technology is a complex process when one sees
unique ideas highlighting the past scientific
landscape and beneficial technological artefacts in
the present. The notion of satellite technology or
space technology, with variable scope and scale, was
an ostentatious idea that has led to a range of remote
sensing and earth observation instruments for
instance. The unique idea is a key reference point
for forecasting how the idea will metamorphose into
an artefact. Knowledge is communicated through so-
called semiotic systems: written text, images,
mathematical and chemical symbols, and so on. The
knowledge of emergent domains is yet to
standardize its symbol systems which simply add to
the (creative) chaos inherent in such emergent
systems. The analysis of change in written text,
amongst the most changeable semiotic system at the
lexical level at least, may reveal a consensus or
dissension in the use of terms. Terms denote
concepts and textually help us to understand how
knowledge evolves in an emergent domain. The
emergent domain of small satellite technology was
studied as an exemplar. Our analysis shows that
research papers and commercial documents can be
distinguished somewhat on the basis of single word
and compound terms that were generated
automatically. These two lexical signatures show the
potential for identifying cross-over points in the
diffusion of knowledge from the research arena to
applications domain. The metamorphosis of science
into technology is a complex process when one sees
innovative ideas highlighting the past scientific
landscape (i.e. in the form of PhD theses and state-
of-the-art research papers) and beneficial
technological artefacts in the present. The analysis
of change in written text, amongst the most
changeable semiotic system at the lexical level at
least, may reveal a consensus or dissension in the
use of terms. Terms denote concepts and textually
help us to understand how knowledge diffuses in a
domain. The specialist domain of satellite
technology or space technology, specifically an
organization in such a domain was studied as an
exemplar. This is our attempt to establish a method,
which covers a broad range of texts, PhD theses,
journal articles, technical reports, and state-of-the-art
review papers, to observe the emergence of a
domain and hence specialist diffusion of knowledge
– and thus possible creation of an enterprise
knowledge cloud (Delic et al, 2009).
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