Since a future pandemic similar to COVID-19 is not a question of whether will happen, but when it will happen. The impact of next pandemic will be determined by how well-prepared countries are when it occurs at any time with little warning, and how countries timely respond. In this context, a...

One of the fundamental issues associated with the achievement of sustainable development in is to identify technological and scientific applications addressing the degradation of environmental systems (atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere), and concomitant risks to health and human...

Technology is a complex system formed by different elements given by incremental and radical innovations to satisfy needs, achieve goals and/or solve problems of adopters to take advantage of important opportunities or to cope with consequential environmental threats. This study suggests...

Evolution of technology is a stepwise advancement of a complex system of artifact, driven by interaction with sub-systems and other systems, considering technical choices, technical requirements and science advances, which generate new and/or improved products or processes for use or consumption...

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...