**5. Conclusion**

This chapter describes the trends in research and technology development related to rabies control during 2001–2011, which illustrate the measures introduced to control zoonoses. We found that the research and technology development activities differed among countries, which were characterized as diverse and polyspecific. The methods used for rabies diagnosis and vaccine development were found to be progressing.

The highly cited research on agent-based modeling and economic impact analysis shows that new interdisciplinary studies of rabies are being conducted. These studies are aimed to accelerate the development of domestic and international management frameworks for rabies.

This bibliometric and patent analysis did not demonstrate that articles (indicators of research outputs) were closely linked to patent applications (indicators of technology development). Our method aimed to measure science linkage to analyze the effects of science and research on technology development. Science linkage is an indicator of technological innovation, which is based on calculating the number of non-patent references such as articles, which are an indicator of the degree of science related to patents, i.e., the number of articles cited per patent [31]. There are technological limitations to science linkage, but many studies have aimed to measure the linkage of patents filed in the US and Europe [31]. From this perspective, meas‐ uring science linkage may be a challenge during future surveys of the trends in research and technology development related to rabies control. This challenge will also apply to zoonoses in general.
