The goal of this study is to analyze the critical role of ventilator technology in health environment to cope with the initial stage of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic crisis. Results suggest that high units of medical ventilators in countries (26.76 units per 100,000 inhabitants)...

The goal of this study is to analyze the relation between funded and unfunded papers, and citations in different scientific fields to explain causes of scientific development. Findings here reveal general properties of science dynamics and diffusion : a) Funded articles in journals receive...

The goal of this study is to analyze the variability of topics in research fields of technologies to explain scientific and technological evolution. Empirical research focuses on quantum technologies (quantum optics, metrology, imaging and sensing) to explain characteristics of the variation...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the driving technical characteristics in product innovation to predict technological trajectories. The analysis is based on hedonic price method and other approaches using empirical data of smartphone technology (N=738 models over 2008-2018). Results show...

A fundamental problem in the scientific field of technical change and technological forecasting is to detect the driving technical characteristics of new technology in order to predict evolutionary pathways. The vast literature in economics of innovation has analyzed many aspects of technical...

In this paper, a theory of innovation failure is proposed clarifying concepts and relationships between elements underlying a system failure of innovation. Theoretical framework suggests that three basic concepts each of which is a constituent element of the next in the following hierarchical...

The abundance of typologies, within the economics of innovation, has resulted in the same name being used for different innovation types and the same innovation being classified under different typologies. The present research introduces the Scale of Innovation Intensity (SIIN) based on...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the technology transfer between public research institutes and users, in particular to measure the absorption intensity of technology within a regional system of innovation. This research uses data from the balance sheets (e.g. turnover, etc.) of the...

The National Council of Research (CNR), the largest public research body in Italy, has, from 1995 to 1998, tried a technological transfer (TT) virtual network with the aim of stimulating and coordinating initiatives for matching the supply of public scientific research and the innovation demand...

The goal of this study is a technology analysis of a revolution for the management of valvular heart diseases given by new technological system based on transcatheter artificial aortic valve, a delivery catheter and a loading system for the treatment of aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic...