Delineating development trends of nanotechnology in the semiconductor industry: Focusing on the relationship between science and technology by employing structural topic model

Inje Kang, Jiseong Yang, Wonjae Lee, Eun-Yeong Seo and Duk Hee Lee

Technology in Society, 2023, vol. 74, issue C

Abstract: The bibliometrics research on nanotechnology highlights close interrelationships between scientific and technological activities (S&T) in the field of nanotechnology. Notwithstanding abundant empirical evidence on the mutual relations between S&T, the dynamics of the relationship from a contextual perspective have gained relatively little attention. Accordingly, our understanding of how science- and technology-oriented nanotechnology identifies development opportunities from each other is still at a nascent stage. To address this gap, by focusing on nanotechnology in the semiconductor industry, we use structural topic model to empirically explore the dynamic interrelationships between science- and technology-oriented nanotechnology. We empirically delineate the dynamic development trends in the context of the interrelationships between S&T and demonstrate how development opportunities are identified from each other. These findings show a new window of opportunities for how state-of-the-art models for semantic analysis can be used in the literature on S&T interrelationships.

Keywords: Nanotechnology; Science-oriented nanotechnology; Technology-oriented nanotechnology; S&T interrelationships; Development opportunities; Structural topic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102326

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