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A Comparative Study on the Trend of Technological Convergence

기술융합의 세계적 추세와 한국의 현황 비교분석

  • Lee, June Young (Division of Information Analysis, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) ;
  • Kim, Dohyun (Division of Information Analysis, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) ;
  • Ahn, Sejung (Division of Information Analysis, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) ;
  • Kwon, Oh-Jin (Division of Information Analysis, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) ;
  • Moon, Yeong-Ho (Division of Information Analysis, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
  • 이준영 (한국과학기술정보연구원 정보분석연구소) ;
  • 김도현 (한국과학기술정보연구원 정보분석연구소) ;
  • 안세정 (한국과학기술정보연구원 정보분석연구소) ;
  • 권오진 (한국과학기술정보연구원 정보분석연구소) ;
  • 문영호 (한국과학기술정보연구원 정보분석연구소)
  • Received : 2012.12.31
  • Accepted : 2013.03.27
  • Published : 2013.06.15
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Abstract

In recent years, 'technological fusion or convergence' has drawn a lot of attention of innovation researchers and governmental policy makers as the driving force of technological innovation and industrial growth. There are, however, few studies on the analysis of longitudinal trends of technological convergence and its comparison between global and national level. In this study, with the citation data of about 18 million articles, we analyzed 1) the growth of representative convergence research areas, 2) the convergence of citing patterns between research fields, and 3) the changing trend of diversity index of all research fields. We conclude that technological convergence in korea shows the relatively strong orientation to the combination of neighboring fields than that of heterogenous fields in comparison to global trend. In particular, the relatively weak activity of cognitive science and the low level of mutual exchange between arts/humanities/social sciences and natural/engineering sciences in Korea are emphasized.

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