Table F1.
Technological opportunities for convergence between BT and IT.
| Type of Tech. opportunities for convergence | Predicted link |
Type of TKF property |
Potential TKF |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Direction | From | To | Predicted Tech. pairs (From → To) | Freq. | |
| Incremental technological opportunities for convergence |
Increased | Bidirectional | A&DN | A&DP | 12(ELC)→1(NNT) | 597 |
| 15(SOC)→1(NNT) | 592 | |||||
| 12(ELC)→3(MBE) | 374 | |||||
| 15(SOC)→3(MBE) | 287 | |||||
| 12(ELC)→8(CHP) | 230 | |||||
| A&DN | 2(BMD)→12(ELC) | 339 | ||||
| DO | A&DN | 5(SGY)→12(ELC) | 438 | |||
| A&DA | 5(SGY)→11(SIG) | 310 | ||||
| A&DA | DO | 11(SIG)→5(SGY) | 393 | |||
| A&DP | A&DA | 6(BIP)→11(SIG) | 211 | |||
| Radical technological opportunities for convergence |
Emerging | Different Unidirectional | A&DP | DO | 14(RFID)→5(SGY) | 15 |
| A&DP | A&DP | 9(MOT)→3(MBE) | 21 | |||
| 9(MOT)→8(CHP) | 9 | |||||
| Unidirectional | A&DP | A&DP | 8(CHP)→10(NET) | 13 | ||
| 1(NNT)→9(MOT) | 9 | |||||
| A&DN | A&DP | 15(SOC)→7(HTE) | 7 | |||
| Bidirectional | A&DA | A&DP | 13(ROB)→3(MBE) | 21 | ||
| 13(ROB)→1(NNT) | 15 | |||||
| A&DN | DO | 15(SOC)→5(SGY) | 14 | |||
| A&DP | A&DP | 3(MBE)→10(NET) | 8 | |||