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.
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页码：1034 / 1050
页数：17
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