One of the problems in the field of technology analysis and innovation management is how new technologies origin and evolve in the presence of environmental threats. The goal of this study is to analyze evolution of innovations to cope with new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that is generating...

Fishbone diagram is a graphical technique to show the several causes of a specific event. Fish-bone diagram is applied here as a novel graphical representation to identify, explore and analyze the source and evolution of innovation and especially General Purpose Technologies (GPTs). Firstly, the...

The definition and explanation of concepts in science are a vital scientific activity because a scientific field can develop only on the base of new comprehensive concepts and categories of concepts and their applications that enlarge the domain of scientific analyses. The conception technology...

Sensors and sensing technologies have a main impact in current society and this aspect will continue into the future because of evolving and improving performance characteristics and capabili-ties. Sensors are general purpose technologies that interact with other technologies with relation-ships...