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Discovering opportunities, defined as situations that can be exploited obtaining from them valuable outcomes, is the main task of entrepreneurs. In this paper we present a formalization of the process of discovering opportunities in a network of research organizations; we introduce opportunity networks constituted by a network modeled as a directed attributed multigraph, an opportunity exploiter, a set of opportunity patterns and opportunity ranking functions. We show how the discovery of joint-research collaborations opportunities in a research-oriented network can be formulated in terms of the proposed formalism.
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Cucchiarelli, A., D’Antonio, F. (2010). Opportunity Discovery Through Network Analysis. In: Popplewell, K., Harding, J., Poler, R., Chalmeta, R. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability IV. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-257-5_30
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