Proliferation dynamics in new sciences

被引：25

作者：

Bonaccorsi, Andrea ^{[1
]}

Vargas, Juan ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Sch Engn, Dept Elect Syst & Automat, I-56126 Pisa, Italy

来源：

RESEARCH POLICY | 2010年 / 39卷 / 08期

关键词：

Dynamics of knowledge; Degree of diversity; Proliferation pattern; Paradigmatic pluralism; Convergence; NANOTECHNOLOGY; INDICATORS; MAP;

D O I：

10.1016/j.respol.2010.05.002

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

The paper studies the dynamics of production of knowledge in an emergent scientific field, Nanoscience. It suggests that scientific knowledge advances by proliferation, or the turbulent entry of new sub-fields, each generating opportunities for further entries at each time. It suggests a new methodology to define and measure the dynamics of knowledge, based on the industrial dynamics of keywords and a formal representation through bipartite graphs. An empirical examination of the graph dynamics in the early stage of the scientific field (1988-2002) confirms the notion of proliferation. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：1034 / 1050

页数：17