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. 2018 Oct 12;12(4):1199–1222. doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2018.09.007

Table D1.

The change of technology knowledge flow.

Type of link in TKF network Predicted link
No. of predicted Tech. pair Predicted Tech. pairs
(No. of predicted links)
Type Direction
Unidirectional link Increased Identical-directional 6 ELC→HTE(177), BIP→NET(26), SIG→HTE(16), SGY→RFID(14), CHP→MOT(12), MBE→MOT(4)
Bidirectional link Unidirectional 3 BMD→NET(59), SGY→NET(42), SGY→ROB(10)
Bidirectional 52 ELC→NNT(597), SOC→NNT(592), SGY→ELC(438), SIG→SGY(393), ELC→MBE(374), BMD→ELC(339),
SGY→SIG(310), SOC→MBE(287),
ELC→CHP(230), BIP→SIG(211),
SGY→MOT(186), NNT→ELC(177),
SOL→SGY(167), SGY→SOL(162),
SIG→MBE(149), SOC→CHP(142),
ELC→SGY(136), BMD→SIG(131),
BMD→SOL(124), SIG→BIP(123),
SIG→BMD(120), BIP→ELC(118),
CHP→ELC(113), CHP→SIG(85),
SIG→NNT(80), MOT→SGY(76),
BMD→MOT(74), MBE→SIG(74),
SOL→BMD(70), ELC→BMD(67),
BIP→MOT(66), SOC→BMD(62),
SOL→MBE(62), NNT→SOC(60),
SOC→BIP(59), SIG→CHP(57),
BIP→SOC(56), SOL→BIP(53),
ELC→BIP(38), MOT→BMD(33),
MBE→ELC(30), SOL→CHP(29),
MOT→BIP(26), BIP→SOL(26),
CHP→SOL(24), MBE→SOL(16),
NNT→SIG(14), MBE→SOC(12),
CHP→SOC(9), BMD→ROB(8),
BMD→SOC(3), ROB→BMD(2)
Unidirectional link Emerging Different unidirectional 5 MOT→MBE(21), RFID→SGY(15),
MOT→CHP(9), HTE→SIG(4),
HTE→ELC(4)
Non-existence Unidirectional 14 CHP→NET(13), NNT→MOT(9),
SOC→HTE(7), ELC→ORC(6),
BMD→ESW(4), SIG→ORC(3),
SOL→ORC(3), MOT→ORC(3),
BIP→ESW(3), SOC→ORC(2),
NET→ORC(1), RFID→BIP(1),
RFID→HTE(1),NNT→NET(1)
Bidirectional 16 ROB→MBE(21), ROB→NNT(15),
SOC→SGY(14), MBE→NET(8),
SGY→SOC(6), HTE→MOT(6),
BMD→RFID(5), ROB→CHP(4),
HTE→SOL(4), CHP→ROB(4),
NET→MBE(3), MBE→ROB(3),
RFID→BMD(1), SOL→HTE(1),
MOT→HTE(1), NNT→ROB(1)