Mapping the dynamic co-evolution of technological convergence
The life cycle of product development and process innovation has been a subject of research among the innovation scholars and industrial policy makers. While the theoretical perspective of life cycle is found useful to narrate a technological and economic development process, it also inspires sch...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/15735/1/0001.pdf http://eprints.um.edu.my/15735/ |
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| Summary: | The life cycle of product development and process innovation has been a subject of research
among the innovation scholars and industrial policy makers. While the theoretical perspective
of life cycle is found useful to narrate a technological and economic development process, it
also inspires scholars to pursue the exploration of convergence process of different
technological system and industrial agglomeration. In this paper, we present an evolutionary
perspective of how patent keyword clusters evolve at ,different phases of the technological
life cycle. We propose an approach to map the technological life cycle of herbal medicine
- sector and explore the evolving knowledge clusters of the major industrial agglomerations in
Malaysia. We perform mapping of knowledge cluster based on keywords found in the
extracted patent documents, portfolio and co-patenting analysis, cross correlation analysis
o~ patent classes and systematic assessment on the evolution of patenting network. For
traditional medicine industry, we observe evidence of convergence of modern
biotechnological methods with existing herbal medicine innovations resulting in the
strengthening of patent clusters and penetration of herbal medicine in novel niches. For
industrial agglomeration case, we found different convergence of innovations take place at
different part of industrial clusters in Malaysia. We will highlight the functional innovation
structure that is constructed based on the cooperation of three entities, university, public
research institute and firm for production, research and joint knowledge creation. The
evolutionary phases of development that we will articulate corresponds to the notions of how
publication and patent numbers grow in sequence; and we also perceive how evolution in
technological convergence relates to the technological life cycle. |
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