Since a future pandemic similar to COVID-19 is not a question of whether will happen, but when it will happen. The impact of next pandemic will be determined by how well-prepared countries are when it occurs at any time with little warning, and how countries timely respond. In this context, a...

The fundamental problem in the field of technology studies is how technology evolves and sustains economic change in human society. This study confronts the problem here by proposing the theory of technological host-parasites coevolution, an approach that may be useful for bringing a new...

Since 2021, vaccinations for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) are more and more a health policy to cope with on-going pandemic crisis. Is this policy response enough to stop the diffusion of novel coronavirus and reduce the negative impact in society? The goal of this study here is to...

The goal of this study is a technology analysis of a revolution for the management of valvular heart diseases given by new technological system based on transcatheter artificial aortic valve, a delivery catheter and a loading system for the treatment of aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the driving technical characteristics in product innovation to predict technological trajectories. The analysis is based on hedonic price method and other approaches using empirical data of smartphone technology (N=738 models over 2008-2018). Results show...

A fundamental problem in the scientific field of technical change and technological forecasting is to detect the driving technical characteristics of new technology in order to predict evolutionary pathways. The vast literature in economics of innovation has analyzed many aspects of technical...

A simple model of the development of technology is presented. This model, in a broad analogy with evolutionary ecology of parasites, within a theoretical framework of Generalized Darwinism, can explain vital characteristics of technological advances and technological evolution. In particular,...

The goal of this study is to analyze the variability of topics in research fields of technologies to explain scientific and technological evolution. Empirical research focuses on quantum technologies (quantum optics, metrology, imaging and sensing) to explain characteristics of the variation...

What is a disruptive innovation? This study confronts this question here by presenting different approaches, which endeavor to explain the dynamic behavior of disruptive technologies in competitive markets. Firstly, this study introduces destructive technology as a radical innovation, based on...