Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development
This article presents a method for quantitatively assessing the role of materials innovation in overall technological development. The method involves classifying the technical changes underlying the overall innovation process first within a set of functional categories and then within each category...
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| author | Magee, Christopher L. |
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| description | This article presents a method for quantitatively assessing the role of materials innovation in overall technological development. The method involves classifying the technical changes underlying the overall innovation process first within a set of functional categories and then within each category as a hierarchical array of technical changes. It is specifically found that about 2/3 of the total progress in computation over the past 40 years has been due to materials/process innovations. More speculatively, materials/process innovation contributes at least 20% of the progress in all areas and the relative contribution of materials/process innovation to overall technological progress has grown in the past few decades. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/819972022-09-29T21:52:20Z Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development Magee, Christopher L. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Magee, Christopher L. This article presents a method for quantitatively assessing the role of materials innovation in overall technological development. The method involves classifying the technical changes underlying the overall innovation process first within a set of functional categories and then within each category as a hierarchical array of technical changes. It is specifically found that about 2/3 of the total progress in computation over the past 40 years has been due to materials/process innovations. More speculatively, materials/process innovation contributes at least 20% of the progress in all areas and the relative contribution of materials/process innovation to overall technological progress has grown in the past few decades. W. L. Gore & Associates 2013-11-06T16:17:13Z 2013-11-06T16:17:13Z 2012-06 2009-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 10762787 1099-0526 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81997 Magee, Christopher L. “Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development.” Complexity 18, no. 1 (September 25, 2012): 10-25. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-8358 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplx.20309 Complexity Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Wiley-Blackwell Publishers MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Magee, Christopher L. Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development |
| title | Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development |
| title_full | Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development |
| title_fullStr | Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development |
| title_short | Towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development |
| title_sort | towards quantification of the role of materials innovation in overall technological development |
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