Abstract
The study of emerging technologies is broad and has multiple and often poorly integrated threads. For example, some literature draw from a number of characteristics such as radicalness, growth speed, coherence, impact, uncertainty and ambiguity while other only look at expected economic benefits. This fractured view of the growth of new technologies has created a hodgepodge of approaches and a dearth of fundamental measures within this research space. Recent efforts at developing a more fundamental measure of technological behavior have yielded "Technical Emergence" - a simple proposition which seeks to measure the growth of concepts within a community of users by tracking Novelty, Persistence, Community and Growth. This fundamental unit induces the possibility to actually measure and, more importantly test, its behavior using repeatable bibliometric techniques. We discuss in detail the conceptual origins and evaluate the concept of technological emergence and relations of indicators to it.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | PICMET 2017 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology |
Subtitle of host publication | Technology Management for the Interconnected World |
Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
Pages | 1-5 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-890843-36-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-5386-2915-4 |
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Publication status | Published - 29 Nov 2017 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | 2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2017 - Portland, United States Duration: 9 Jul 2017 → 13 Jul 2017 |
Conference
Conference | 2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2017 |
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Abbreviated title | PICMET 2017 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Portland |
Period | 9/07/17 → 13/07/17 |