Developing and using indicators of emerging and enabling technologies

How the analysis of transitionary references in knowledge networks and their centrality characteristics helps in understanding the genesis of growing technology areas

“…The most popular labels are emerging, disruptive, enabling and advanced technologies. These terms are also widely used in the academic literature ( Fig.1) and provide relevant classification categories (e.g., see Gokhberg et al, 2013) or elaborate an operational definition (Halaweh, 2013;Rotolo et al, 2015) to clarify the meaning a widely used umbrella concept. Among the four mentioned technological categories, two deserve special attention, namely the 'advanced' and 'emerging' technologies.…”

Selection of Information Sources for Identifying Technology Trends: A Comparative Analysis

“…Medical scanners [Gokhberg et al, 2013] Key enabling technologies Key enabling technologies (KETs) are knowledge intensive and associated with high R&D intensity, rapid innovation cycles, high capital expenditure and highly-skilled employment. They enable process, goods and service innovation throughout the economy and are of systemic relevance.…”

“…In addition, there is widespread and increasing interest in the development of indicators for measuring technology trends. Such indicators can be used for monitoring their arrival, development, and subsequent diffusion, as well as their key social and economic impacts [Gokhberg et al, 2013;Meissner and Sokolov, 2013].…”

Patent Activity in Biotechnology

“…The list-based definition supplements the general definition, unfolding the field's subject matter and detailing it based on groups of biotechnologies (Table 2). Such an approach allows us -in a first approximation -to mark out the boundaries of the biotechnology field and operationalize the basic definition for the purpose of statistical measurement and analysis [Gokhberg et al, 2013].…”

“…The first attempts at economic and statistical analysis of the development of biotechnologies took place in 1980, when scientific and technical investigations in this field were undertaken [Gokhberg et al, 2013]. Ten years later, the national statistics agencies of Canada, New Zealand, and France conducted special investigations of industrial organizations whose activities were related to the development and use of biotechnologies [Ibid.].…”