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Innovation as a nonlinear process, the scientometric perspective, and the specification of an ‘innovation opportunities explorer’
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-08, 13:51 authored by Loet Leydessdorf, Daniele RotoloDaniele Rotolo, Wouter de NooyThe process of innovation follows non-linear patterns across the domains of science, technology, and the economy. Novel bibliometric mapping techniques can be used to investigate and represent distinctive, but complementary perspectives on the innovation process (e.g., “demand” and “supply”) as well as the interactions among these perspectives. The perspectives can be represented as “continents” of data related to varying extents over time. For example, the different branches of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the Medline database provide sources of such perspectives (e.g., “Diseases” versus “Drugs and Chemicals”). The multiple-perspective approach enables us to reconstruct facets of the dynamics of innovation, in terms of selection mechanisms shaping localizable trajectories and/or resulting in more globalized regimes. By expanding the data with patents and scholarly publications, we demonstrate the use of this multi- perspective approach in the case of RNA Interference (RNAi). The possibility to develop an “Innovation Opportunities Explorer” is specified.
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Publication status
- Published
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Journal
Technology Analysis and Strategic ManagementISSN
0953-7325Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
Issue
6Volume
25Page range
641-653Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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