TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining the dynamics of an emerging research network using the case of triboelectric nanogenerators
AU - Suominen, Arho
AU - Peng, Haoshu
AU - Ranaei, Samira
N1 - Funding Information:
Arho Suominen PhD, is a Senior Scientist at the Innovations, Economy, and Policy unit at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Technology Forecasting and Analytics at the Tampere University of Technology. Dr. Suominen's research focuses on qualitative and quantitative assessment of emerging technologies and innovation management. His research has been funded by the Academy of Finland, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology, and the Fulbright Center Finland. He has published work in several journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Science and Public Policy, Scientometrics, and Journal of Systems and Software. Dr. Suominen has a Doctor of Science (Tech.) degree from the University of Turku.
Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback during the review process. The Academy of Finland supported this work with the research grant ( 288609 ) “Modeling Science and Technology Systems Through Massive Data Collection”.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - The analysis of a scientist's decision to conduct research in a specific scientific field is an interesting way to trace the emergence of a new technology. The growth of a research community in size and persistence is an important indicator of a new scientific field's vitality. Using a case study on triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology, this study identifies how research participation and community dynamics evolve during the emergence phase of a technology, and further what are the key conditions and determinants of the emergent author network. The study uses scientific publication data from 2012 through 2017 extracted from the Web of Science database. Results show communities emerging through actors' close proximity rather than from their shared thematic orientation. For individual researchers, the boundary between prior research and TENG research was negligible partly questioning the existence Kuhnian paradigm shifts.
AB - The analysis of a scientist's decision to conduct research in a specific scientific field is an interesting way to trace the emergence of a new technology. The growth of a research community in size and persistence is an important indicator of a new scientific field's vitality. Using a case study on triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology, this study identifies how research participation and community dynamics evolve during the emergence phase of a technology, and further what are the key conditions and determinants of the emergent author network. The study uses scientific publication data from 2012 through 2017 extracted from the Web of Science database. Results show communities emerging through actors' close proximity rather than from their shared thematic orientation. For individual researchers, the boundary between prior research and TENG research was negligible partly questioning the existence Kuhnian paradigm shifts.
KW - Author network emergence
KW - Emerging technology
KW - Triboelectric nanogenerator
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U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.10.008
DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.10.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055264346
VL - 146
SP - 820
EP - 830
JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
SN - 0040-1625
ER -