  Today's scientific research is an expensive enterprise funded largely by
taxpayers' and corporate groups' monies. It is a critical part in the
competition between nations, and all nations want to discover fields of
research that promise to create future industries, and dominate these by
building up scientific and technological expertise early. However, our
understanding of the value chain going from science to technology is still in a
relatively infant stage, and the conversion of scientific leadership into
market dominance remains very much an alchemy rather than a science. In this
paper, we analyze bibliometric records of scientific journal publications and
patents related to graphene, at the aggregate level as well as on the temporal
and spatial dimensions. We find the present leaders of graphene science and
technology emerged rather late in the race, after the initial scientific
leaders lost their footings. More importantly, notwithstanding the amount of
funding already committed, we find evidences that suggest the 'Golden Eras' of
graphene science and technology were in 2010 and 2012 respectively, in spite of
the continued growth of journal and patent publications in this area.
