Technological barriers and research trends in fuel cell technologies: A citation network analysis

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 66-79

  Ho, Jonathan C ^a   Saw, Ewe Chai ^a   Lu, Louis Y Y ^a   Liu, John S ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Citation network analysis; Fuel cell; Growth curve analysis; Main path analysis; Technological barrier

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895020811     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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