26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference IAMOT 2017
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Contribution ID : 267
Type : Presentation only (Category B)
How the fourth industrial revolution is represented
in science literature
Monday, 15 May 2017 14:36 (0:22)
Content
Science, economy and industry, as well as society and government stand on the sill of a new
technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way of our live, our work, and relate
to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity the transformation will be unlike anything
humankind has experienced before. The possibilities of billions of people connected by mobile devices,
with unprecedented processing power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge, are unlimited.
Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous around us, from self-driving cars and drones to virtual assistants
and software that translate or invest. Digital fabrication technologies, meanwhile, are interacting
with the biological world on a daily basis. Engineers, designers, and architects are combining
computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering, and synthetic biology to
pioneer a symbiosis between microorganisms, our bodies, the products we consume, and even the
buildings we inhabit. How do research and science work up the challenges and findings round this
fourth industrial revolution? How is the landscape of the fourth industrial revolution represented
in scientific literature? Which topics are frequently discussed? The fourth industrial revolution
includes among others especially cyber physical system, digitalisation, industry 4.0 (especially
in Germany), or internet of things. Which picture does science literature show if we combine
these with topics covered in innovation management, in R&D management, in management of
technology, or also combined with manufacturing, or production? Who is working in these topics?
Technology monitoring and bibliometric methods aim at creating an overview on technological and
non-technological information on the specific subject matter, in our case here is that the topics round
the fourth industrial revolution, in order to identify emerging topics in research fronts, growing
and declining topics, evaluate already existing networks and the potential in up to now unused
collaboration. The data source can be scientific literature, patents, or other sources. The advantage
of these methods is based on the possibility of content-based structuring of the information, the
identification of subtopics, the visualization of the contents, of structure and connections of the
information. The objectives of such a monitoring is to get insight into scientific literature (this
is the data source in our case here – Web of Science) in order to identify • research fronts and
their emerging topics and technologies as well as their dynamics; • perceptible highly cited articles
as basis for later research; • key players, i.e. the most visible organizations and authors, and the
connections between them show collaboration patterns
This contribution analyses approximately 1,500 articles in Web of Science, structure and visualise
them. The publication activities have doubled from 2014 to 2016. The most visible country is China
followed by Germany, USA, and England. Also Asia is most represented; Europe follows on the heels
of Asia. Even Austria is ranked under the first 20 most visible countries. The topics are covered
over a broad range of research area, starting from engineering, computer science, business economics,
automation control systems, etc. but also in social sciences, and food science, only to mention some
of them.
Primary author(s) :
Dr. HÖRLESBERGER, Marianne (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Co-author(s) :
Dr. KASZTLER, Andrea (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Presenter(s) :
Dr. HÖRLESBERGER, Marianne (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Session Classification : Management of technology in developing countries
Track Classification : Knowledge management