Local emergence and global diffusion of research technologies: An exploration of patterns of network formation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 846-860

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Rafols, Ismael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRUCTURE; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; GEOGRAPHICAL NETWORKS; GLOBAL DIFFUSION; GOOGLE MAPS; INNOVATION TRAJECTORIES; NANOCRYSTALLINE SOLAR CELLS; NETWORK FORMATION; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; SMALL INTERFERENCE RNA; SMALL WORLDS;

INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING; RNA;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 79953885588     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21509     Document Type: Article

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