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Review
. 2023 Sep 7;9(9):e19922.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19922. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Analysing the current status, hotspots, and future trends of technology management: Using the WoS and scopus database

Shi Yubo  1   2 , T Ramayah  1   3   4   5   6   7   8   6   9 , Luo Hongmei  10 , Zhang Yifan  1 , Wang Wenhui  1
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Analysing the current status, hotspots, and future trends of technology management: Using the WoS and scopus database

Shi Yubo et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

This study presents a comprehensive overview of the development process and the latest trends in technology management (TM), laying a robust foundation for further advancements in this domain. To achieve this, we analysed 1944 TM articles from the Web of Science database and 2642 articles from Scopus, spanning the last 20 years. Employing methodologies that involve scientific knowledge graphs and bibliometrics, we analysed diverse aspects such as changes in the annual publication of articles; geographical distribution among countries, institutions, disciplines, and authors; keyword co-occurrence and clusters; and timezone view. Our findings reveal a significant surge in TM's growth in recent years, showcasing its highly promising potential. The USA is the frontrunner in contributing to TM research, followed by China and the UK. TM research is relatively concentrated in the UK, while it appears more dispersed in China. The University of Cambridge had the highest volume of research, and the disciplines of Business, Management, Engineering, and Computer Science occupied the top spots. As TM evolves, a possible challenge could be the emergence of new authoritative authors. Second, TM's vibrant landscape is characterised by hotspots such as innovation, technology strategy, technology acquisition, technology application, technology standards, and sustainable development. Among these, information and medical technologies stand out as the most frequently referenced technologies. Third, the trends in TM are as follows: innovation is subdivided into technological innovation and open innovation, bibliometric analysis and patent analysis have become pivotal methods for knowledge management, the scope of TM has expanded from internal organisational processes to encompass external aspects, and TM is gradually evolving into a mature science, with its focus transitioning from macro to micro and becoming more profound and detailed. Last, Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, big data, and the IoT represent the latest frontier technologies in the realm of TM.

Keywords: Bibliometric; CiteSpace; Innovation; Scientific knowledge graph; Technological innovation; Technology management.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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The trend of annual publication articles of TM. From 2003 to 2022 in WoS and Scopus.
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The distribution and cooperation of countries in WoS.
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The distribution and cooperation of countries in scopus.
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The distribution of institutions in WoS.
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The distribution of institutions in scopus.
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The distribution of disciplines in WoS.
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The distribution of disciplines in scopus.
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The zoneline view of distribution and collaboration network of authors in WoS.
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The zoneline view of distribution and collaboration network of the authors in WoS.
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The graph of keyword Co-occurrence in WoS.
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The graph of keyword Co-occurrence in scopus.
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The cluster of keywords in WoS.
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The cluster of keywords in scopus.
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The timezone view in WoS.
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The Timezone View in Scopus.
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The word cloud of the frontiers.of TM in WoS
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The word cloud of the frontiers.of TM in Scopus
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