Topics where the global field is growing fast and the world’s top-5 institutions don’t yet dominate — and where Arkansas already has adjacent strengths to leverage. Surfaced as candidates for the conversation, not prescriptions. The user is the decision-maker.
A topic is listed as a frontier-leadership candidate when three conditions are met:
cagr_2018_latest ≥ 5% (global yearly works grew at least 5% per year over the signal window).adjacent_topics of an Arkansas-active topic. Direct top-100 presence counts as the strongest adjacency.top5_share ≤ 20% (no single global elite has consolidated leadership yet).
Candidates are ranked by
frontier_score = cagr × (1 − top5_share) × √ar_adjacency_score.
Higher score = field is growing fast, leadership is fragmented, and
Arkansas is closer to the work.
This is a descriptive surface. It identifies fields where credibly building top-10 leadership is structurally easier than in already-consolidated areas — nothing more. Decisions about where to invest belong to institutional leadership.
| # | Topic | CAGR | Top-5 share | AR adjacency | Confidence | Score |
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