SUPPORTING SUCCESSFUL STANDARDIZATION PROCESSES IN COMPLEX EMERGING FIELDS THROUGH QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS — THE CASE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

Kerstin Goluchowicz (), Stephan Gauch () and Knut Blind ()
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Kerstin Goluchowicz: Chair of Innovation Economics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Müller-Breslau-Str. 15, VWS 2, Berlin 10623, Germany;
Stephan Gauch: Chair of Innovation Economics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Müller-Breslau-Str. 15, VWS 2, Berlin 10623, Germany;
Knut Blind: Chair of Innovation Economics, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Müller-Breslau-Str., VWS 2, Berlin 10623, Germany;

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2013, vol. 10, issue 02, 1-18

Abstract: The field of nanotechnology is characterized by its rapid development and a multitude of participating communities and different subareas of scientific and technical activities, challenges regarding the understanding, coordination and implementation of new technologies. By reviewing some of the main challenges for successful knowledge-based standardization in complex emerging and heterogeneous fields this paper will present a range of quantitative methods, applied to publication data, that will provide a blueprint for further foresight activities in complex R&D fields. It addresses the issue of identification and integration of topics and researchers in such research fields that can be decomposed into thematic subfields and present solutions for an integration of this plurality into standardization processes.

Keywords: Standardization process; foresight; nanotechnology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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