PATHWAYS TO A DRUG: A MIXED METHODS ANALYSIS OF EMERGENCE

Arho Suominen () and Ozgur Dedehayir ()
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Arho Suominen: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Vuorimiehentie 3, PL 1000 02044 Espoo, Finland
Ozgur Dedehayir: School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Level 9, Z Block, 2 George Street, Brisbane 4000, QLD, Australia

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2017, vol. 21, issue 08, 1-17

Abstract: Despite the calls for a broader methodological base, the technology management and the forecasting literature remain short of studies synthesising quantitative and qualitative methods. This paper addresses this gap by employing a mixed method approach to study the case of Taxol, a revolutionary drug developed to fight ovarian and breast cancer. The paper shows in detail how a data mining-based network model can be synthesised with qualitatively created event narrative to understand the development of a technology and its ecosystem. As a result, the paper shows an npartite network of Taxol drug ecosystem containing over 4,000 nodes and 11,000 edges. The network enables decision makers to understand the process, interaction of actors and lock-in mechanism in the process of technological development.

Keywords: Mixed methods; technology analysis; innovation ecosystem; Taxol (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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