Proliferation dynamics in new sciences

Andrea Bonaccorsi and Juan Vargas

Research Policy, 2010, vol. 39, issue 8, 1034-1050

Abstract: The paper studies the dynamics of production of knowledge in an emergent scientific field, Nanoscience. It suggests that scientific knowledge advances by proliferation, or the turbulent entry of new sub-fields, each generating opportunities for further entries at each time. It suggests a new methodology to define and measure the dynamics of knowledge, based on the industrial dynamics of keywords and a formal representation through bipartite graphs. An empirical examination of the graph dynamics in the early stage of the scientific field (1988-2002) confirms the notion of proliferation.

Keywords: Dynamics; of; knowledge; Degree; of; diversity; Proliferation; pattern; Paradigmatic; pluralism; Convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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