Measuring the Structure of a Technology System for Directing Technological Transition.

ABSTRACT: Technological advancements have generated a "techno-sphere" within which all humans live. However, the capacity to direct technology development lags far behind technology development itself. This study deciphers the structural characteristics of a technology system using three pairs of features: systemicity and complexity (scalar), centrality and diversity (structural), and adaptability and inertia (structural); and at micro-, meso-, and macrolevels. By applying this approach in Chinese agricultural and water technology systems in the Yellow River Region and the Yangtze River Region from the beginning of agriculture in ≈8000 BC to the end of preindustrial agriculture in 1911, it is found that there exist trade-off relationships between the centrality and diversity of a technology system,

SUBMITTER: Wu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7857126 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature