Pharmaceutical/life science technology evaluation and scoring

1. A method, implemented via a server computing device, the server computing device comprising a processor and a memory configured to store a plurality of instructions executable by the processor to implement the method, the method comprising:

receiving, by an innovation engine, data of a publication descriptive of a drug;

transforming, by the innovation engine, the data into a structured schema for breaking text included in the data into subsections, wherein the structured schema is a generalized architecture of document contents;

extracting, by the innovation engine, context associated with the drug from the subsections;

processing, by the innovation engine, the text to add meta-data to the structured schema to apply the context of the data;

determining, by a first tier of the innovation engine, context specific occurrences of variables associated with the drug in the data based on the context;

generating, by a second tier of the innovation engine, trend data from the data, wherein the trend data is based on one or more of publication rates associated with the drug, grant rates associated with the drug, or development stage associated with the drug;

applying, by a third tier of the innovation engine, machine learning to determine a weighting of at least one variable from the first tier or trend data from the second tier by comparing, on a temporal basis, the variables from the first tier and the trend data from the second tier to transactional information associated with other drugs, wherein the transactional information comprises one or more of funding history, licensing data, or merger and acquisitions data;

transmitting, by the innovation engine, the weighting to a user interface of a client computing device;

receiving, by a controller, from the user interface of the client computing device a query based, at least in part, on the transmitted weighting;

executing, by the controller, the query against the structured schema to produce a result;

transmitting, by the controller, the result to the client computing device and displaying the result on the user interface of the client computing device;

receiving, by the controller, from the user interface of the client computing device, instructions through user interface elements to modify the weighting; and

generating and displaying, by the controller, an updated result on the user interface of the client computing device based on the modified weighting.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the weighting is determined based on an influence of the at least one variable from the first tier or trend data from the second tier in achieving prior market performance of the other drugs.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

generating, by the innovation engine, a sub-score for each of the variables; and

summing, by the innovation engine, the sub-scores to generate a composite score.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising generating, by the innovation engine, one or more quantitative metrics having a temporal component based, at least in part, on the received data.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising generating, by the innovation engine, metadata based at least in part, on the extracted context of the data.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising measuring, by the innovation engine, a confidence in at least one of the variables by calculating a number of times the at least one of the variables has been associated with previous data.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising elevating, by the innovation engine, a weighting of the at least one of the variables when the at least one of the variables has been associated with previous data.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising analyzing, by the innovation engine, the data with respect to a plurality of predefined key words.

9. A server computing device comprising:

at least one programmable processor and a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one programmable processor, perform the method comprising:

receiving, by an innovation engine, data of a publication descriptive of a drug;

transforming, by the innovation engine, the data into a structured schema for breaking a text included in the data into subsections, wherein the structured schema is a generalized architecture of document contents;

extracting, by the innovation engine, context associated with the drug from the subsections;

processing, by the innovation engine, the text to add meta-data to the structured schema to apply the context of the data;

determining, by a first tier of the innovation engine, context specific occurrences of variables associated with the drug in the data based on the context;

generating, by a second tier of the innovation engine, trend data from the data, wherein the trend data is based on one or more of publication rates associated with the drug, grant rates associated with the drug, or development stage associated with the drug;

applying, by a third tier of the innovation engine, machine learning to determine a weighting of at least one variable from the first tier or trend data from the second tier by comparing, on a temporal basis, the variables from the first tier and the trend data from the second tier to transactional information associated with other drugs, wherein the transactional information comprises funding history, licensing data, or merger and acquisitions data;

transmitting, by the innovation engine, the weighting to a user interface of a client computing device;

receiving, by a controller, from the user interface of the client computing device a query based, at least in part, on the transmitted weighting;

executing, by the controller, the query against the structured schema to produce a result;

transmitting, by the controller, the result to the client computing device and displaying the result on the user interface of the client computing device;

receiving, by the controller, from the user interface of the client computing device, instructions through user interface elements to modify the weighting; and

generating and displaying, by the controller, an updated result on the user interface of the client computing device based on the modified weighting.

10. The server computing device of claim 9 , wherein the weighting is determined based on an influence of the at least one variable from the first tier or trend data from the second tier in achieving prior market performance of the other drugs.

11. The server computing device of claim 10 , further comprising:

generating, by the innovation engine, a sub-score for each of the variables; and

summing, by the innovation engine, the sub-scores to generate a composite score.

12. The server computing device of claim 11 , further comprising generating, by the innovation engine, one or more quantitative metrics having a temporal component based, at least in part, on the received data.

13. The server computing device of claim 12 , further comprising generating, by the innovation engine, metadata based at least in part on the extracted context of the data.

14. The server computing device of claim 13 , further comprising measuring, by the innovation engine, a confidence in at least one of the variables by calculating a number of times the at least one of the variables has been associated with previous data.

15. The server computing device of claim 14 , further comprising elevating, by the innovation engine, a weighting of the at least one of the variables when the at least one of the variables has been associated with previous data.

16. The server computing device of claim 15 , further comprising analyzing, by the innovation engine, the data with respect to a plurality of predefined key words.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface includes graphical representations to allow the user to change the weighting for the query.

18. The method of claim 8 , further comprising displaying, on the user interface, visualization of the sub-scores or composite score over time using a temporal line graph showing annotations of events that impact the sub-scores or composite score.

19. The server computing device of claim 16 , wherein the user interface includes graphical representations to allow the user to change the weighting for the query.

20. The server computing device of claim 16 , wherein the method performed by the at least one programmable processor further comprises:

displaying, on the user interface, visualization of the sub-scores or composite score over time using a temporal line graph showing annotations of events that impact the sub-scores or composite score.