Insights into relationships between disruptive technology/innovation and emerging technology: A bibliometric perspective

Munan Li; Alan L. Porter; Arho Suominen

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2017.09.032

Insights into relationships between disruptive technology/innovation and emerging technology: A bibliometric perspective

Munan Li^*
, Alan L. Porter
, Arho Suominen

^*Corresponding author for this work

South China University of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Search Technology Inc.

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Abstract

"Disruptive technology & disruptive innovation" have been of scholarly interest for years, but there is still a need to better understand the nature of disruptions and their relationship to emerging technology processes. This paper pursues these issues by analyzing the interplay of technological emergence, disruption, and innovation. Applying bibliometric methods, the paper explores the conceptual foundations, themes, and research communities within these research domains. The results highlight the multiple theoretical foundations of research around technological change processes, disruption, and emergence. These differences among the domains invite conceptual cross-fertilization and consideration of interdisciplinary approaches to technological (and commercial) emergence.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	285-296
Journal	Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Volume	129
Early online date	6 Nov 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.09.032
Publication status	Published - 2018
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This material is based on work supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 71673088), the Foundation of Guangdong Soft Science (no. 2017A070706003), the Foundation of China Scholarship Council (no. 201606155066), the National Science Foundation under the EAGER Award (no. 1645237) for “Using the ORCID ID and Emergence Scoring to Study Frontier Researchers” project.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

disruptive technology
disruptive innovation
emerging technology
bibliometric analysis
co-citation
bibliographic coupling

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Insights into relationships between disruptive technology/innovation and emerging technology: A bibliometric perspective

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