The co-evolution of knowledge and collaboration networks: the role of the technology life-cycle

Johannes van der Pol and Jean-Paul Rameshkoumar
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Jean-Paul Rameshkoumar: GREThA - Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The aim of the paper is to show how the transition from the emergence of a technology to its development phase impacts the evolution of the structure of the collaboration network. In order to identify these first phases of the life cycle of the technology a method is developed based on the International Patent Classification. Using this method, we identify when a technology transitions from an emerging technology to a stage in which applications of the technology are found. We then compare the moment at which this transition occurs to the evolution of the collaboration network for the same technology and show that there is a significant change in the structure of the network when this transition occurs.

Keywords: Innovation; Network analysis; Patents analysis; Publications; Scale-free network; Structure Composite Materials; Technology life cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Scientometrics, 2018, 114 (1), pp.307-323. ⟨10.1007/s11192-017-2579-4⟩

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Working Paper: The co-evolution of knowledge and collaboration networks: the role of the technology life-cycle (2017)
Working Paper: The co-evolution of knowledge and collaboration networks: the role of the technology life-cycle (2015)
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2579-4

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