**CREAMINKA: An Intelligent Ecosystem for Supporting Management and Information Discovery in Research and Innovation Fields in Universities Management and Information Discovery in Research and Innovation Fields in Universities**

**CREAMINKA: An Intelligent Ecosystem for Supporting** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.73212

Juan Pablo Salgado Guerreo, Daniel Pulla Sánchez, Jorge Galán Mena, Vladimir Robles Bykbaev, Verónica Cevallos León Wong and Adrián Narváez-Pacheco Jorge Galán Mena, Vladimir Robles Bykbaev, Verónica Cevallos León Wong and Adrián Narváez-Pacheco Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Juan Pablo Salgado Guerreo, Daniel Pulla Sánchez,

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.73212

#### **Abstract**

This chapter presents a new proposal for supporting the management of research processes in universities and higher education centers. To this aim, the authors have developed a comprehensive ecosystem that implements a knowledge model that addresses three innovative aspects of research: (i) acceleration of knowledge production, (ii) research valorization and (iii) discovery of improbable peers. The ecosystem relies on ontologies and intelligent modules and is able to automatically retrieve information of major scientific databases such as SCOPUS and Science Direct to infer new information. Currently, the system is able to provide guidelines to create improbable research peers as well as automatically generate resilience graphics and reports from more than 17,000 tuples of the ontological database. In this work, the authors describe in detail an important aspect of support systems for research management in higher education: the development and valorization of competences of students collaborating in research process and startUPS of universities. Furthermore, a knowledge model of entrepreneurship (startUPS) as well as an analyzer of general and specific competences based on data mining processes is presented.

**Keywords:** ontologies, acceleration of knowledge production, higher education, student research competences, entrepreneurship

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