SCIP Prague 2023 – Academic Track: What is the future direction of competitive intelligence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The last few years have seen changes in the competitive intelligence landscape which collectively could signal a potential evolution in the thinking about the definition of the field and for academic’s new research opportunities and directions. The recent SCIP Prague conference, in particular the academic stream along with a special issue of Foresight in 2020 exemplify what is happening. This paper uses primarily the presentations that were part of the SCIP Prague 2023 academic track to examine were the field could be going and, in many ways, represents a call to all academics in CI and related fields about emerging opportunities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.025 | 0.030 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.032 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.017 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.083 | 0.034 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".