The relationship between science, technology and society during the Covid-19 pandemic
The case of computerized tomography in Canada
Student names (alphabetical order): Charles Dupont, Thomas Foo, Md Faiaz Hider, Aly Karam, Zhihong Qian
Supervisor: Gita Ghiasi
Course: ENGR-392-2204-RR
Abstract
The development of computerized tomography can improve and help Canadian society to be safe, healthy, stable and functional during the COVID-19 pandemic. This technology has a huge potential in the medical and digital computing industry, that many big companies are interested and enrolled in this field. Its application can be used in human necessities, physics and digital computing. The project shows the patents, institution publications, and funding sponsors to identify actors and institutions involved in developing and diffusing this technology in the period between 2015 and 2020. The data collected for this project shows the relationship between the Canadian society and the technology in question in terms of employment, wage, gender gap and COVID-19 economic impact. This research is based on keyword, publication, patent, company and socio-economic analysis. It was done by using the Compendex, Inspec and Megent Online databases to show the triple helix model that the academia, governmental institutions and industries in computerized tomography scientific help and prompt each other. The results of this project aim at giving suggestions for the technology policy.