Technological convergence and the absorptive capacity of standardisation

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 236-249

  Gauch, Stephan ^a,b   Blind, Knut ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER FOKUS   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Patent classification; Standardisation; Technology convergence

Indexed keywords

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; STABILITY CRITERIA; STANDARDS;

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; EXPLORATIVE IDENTIFICATION; INTERNATIONAL PATENTS; PATENT CLASSIFICATIONS; RELIABLE MEASUREMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE;

STANDARDIZATION;

AGGLOMERATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLASSIFICATION; CONVERGENCE; STANDARDIZATION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84920175754     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.02.022     Document Type: Article

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