Tag: Technical Emergence
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Tracking the emergence of synthetic biology (full-text)
Synthetic biology is an emerging domain that combines biological and engineering concepts and which has seen rapid growth in research, innovation, and policy interest in recent years. This paper contributes to efforts to delineate this emerging domain by presenting a newly constructed bibliometric definition of synthetic biology. Our approach is dimensioned from a core set…
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A measure of staying power: Is the persistence of emergent concepts more significantly influenced by technical domain or scale? (full-text)
This study advances a four-part indicator for technical emergence. While doing so it focuses on a particular class of emergent concepts—those which display the ability to repeatedly maintain an emergent status over multiple time periods. The authors refer to this quality as staying power and argue that those concepts which maintain this ability are deserving…
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A Systematic Method for Technology Assessment: Illustrated for Big Data Analytics (full-text)
Historically, Technology Assessment (TA) refers to studying the societal effects of the development and application of a technology. A key challenge for modern TA is to assess emerging technology fields as they are emerging – this is crucial for producing actionable strategic intelligence for use in decision-making. To contribute to addressing this challenge, the aim…