Guest Editorial: Tech Mining for Engineering Management: An Introduction

The papers in this special section focus on the concept of "tech mining." Here, this term refers to the application of text mining tools to science and technology information, informed by the understanding of technological innovation processes. Since the 1st Global Tech Mining (GTM) Conference in 2010, the GTM community has established great connections between tech mining and a broad range of research domains, particularly bibliometrics, text mining, and technology management. Endeavours of the community touch on benefits of the big data boom, the artificial intelligence (AI) age, advanced analytical and visualization tools, novel philosophical concepts, and reshaped managerial models.