Horizon Scanning

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Horizon ScanningA novel approach to scanning the scientific, technical and medical horizon for signs of

future emergence.

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marketplace,

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the ability to detect emerging technologies that are still in their

infancy is a critical markerfor success.

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Whether it’s identifying early-stage in-licensing or acquisition opportunities,

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Identifying emerging science and technology

for therapeutic and product areas,

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Or even increasing the efficiency of existing

R&D pipelines.

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1.5Mbiomedical papers

per year

However, with the rising pace ofglobal research output,

2.7Mpatents applications

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too much data is being produced for human efforts alone to interpret.

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Analysts need new approaches to enable them to continually scan for signs of scientific

and technical emergence.

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Meta Horizon ScanningPredictive early awareness for science/IP

Horizon Scanning allows innovation-driven companies to scan the entire corpus of

scientific and patent literature for signs of technical emergence.

Identifying the emerging research being worked on by the next big PIs, academic medical centers and early-stage start-ups.

Identifying early emergences in drug discovery, drug therapy and translational medicine.

Identifying opportunities for drug repositioning, repurposing, and rescue.

Here are just a few applications:

Meta Horizon Scanning was originally developed for a U.S. National

Intelligence Program.

IARPA

The goal was to create “a crystal ball for science and technology.”

IARPA

Horizon Scanning

Background• 5 year U.S. intelligence program, SRI

International was prime contractor

• Goal - enable early reliable detection and

monitoring of technical emergence (Horizon

Scanning) through machine intelligence

• Scientific and patent literature (domestic

and foreign)

Past SRI Companies: SIRI (acq: Apple), TempoAI (acq: SalesForce), Redwood Robotics (acq: Google), Trap!T, Nuance

Meta Horizon Scanning is built upona central hypothesis:

Meta Horizon Scanning is built upona central hypothesis:

Real-world processes of technical emergence leave discernable traces in the public, scientific,

and patent literature.*

* Murdick, D.A “Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition.” Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/fuse Retrieved 19 July 2016.

Since change is a significant signalof emergence,

then it should follow that those changes could be mapped through semantic and

linguistic patterns in the literature,*

* Alexander, Jeffrey “A Reasoning-based Framework for the Computation of Technical Emergence.” SRI International. GTM 2013. 25September 2013. p8.

and subtle signals of emerging technical areas could be detected years in advance.

Meta Horizon Scanning leverages world-leading AI to scan the scientific and technical

horizon at a speed and scale that far exceed human ability. *

Hemsoth, Nicole. “Why the Golden Age of Machine Learning is just Beginning.” The Next Platform. 20 October, 2015. http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/10/20/why-the-golden-age-of-machine-learning-begins-now/ Retrieved 18 July 2016.

However, the key to success in Horizon Scanning is not just in the powerof the algorithms, it is in having

access to the content.

Over the past five years, Meta has created relationships with 40 of the world’s leading

scientific, technical and medical publishers,

effectively creating the largest commercial STM text-mining collection on Earth.

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Type Domain Language Volume Coverage

Closed-accessfull-text articles

Science and technical literature English 28M 1900 - 2016

Open–accessrepositories

Science and technical literature English 26M 1980 - 2016

US Patent andTrademark Office

Patentdatabase English 9.7M (app)

4.9M (grant) ~1980-2016

$850M$850M In Peer-ReviewedResearch Content

Meta’s content sources

In exchange for their content, publishers leverage Meta’s AI to enable article discovery across Meta’s entire platform,

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putting more journals and papers into the hands of researchers and innovation-driven companies around the globe.

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With Meta Horizon Scanning, innovation teams have a privileged view of the future trajectories

of science and technology.

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that will keep them ahead.

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