Structuring the unknown - insights on waste management research in Europe

Innovation managers and other professionals dealing with new technologies need to be able to quickly gain an overview over broad topics. This work introduces a method combining the semantic information of scientific publications with its respective metadata. To do so, a Latent Dirichlet Analysis and K-Means Clustering are performed. As a proof of concept, the topic of waste management in Europe is chose. The subject is approached with the help of a classification system based on the SDGs. More specifically, SGD12 is used as starting point to approach the topic. Afterwards the analysis is limited to waste management. The results show what topics are researched in this context and which disciplines are concerned with them.