Tracing Technological Development Trajectories: A Genetic Knowledge Persistence-Based Main Path Approach

The aim of this paper is to propose a new method to identify main paths in a technological domain using patent citations. Previous approaches for using main path analysis have greatly improved our understanding of actual technological trajectories but nonetheless have some limitations. They have hig...

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Main Authors: Park, Hyunseok (Contributor), Magee, Christopher L (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Contributor), SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2017-06-19T19:54:03Z.
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