Resumen

GUZMAN, Alenka; ACATITLA ROMERO, Edgar  y  BROWN GROSSMAN, Flor. Convergence of innovation in the nanotechnology paradigm across countries. Contad. Adm [online]. 2018, vol.63, n.1. ISSN 0186-1042.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fca.24488410e.2018.1338.

Innovation convergence implies a paradigm in which the findings and the creation of technology occur at the intersection of multiple disciplines and organizations. Nanotechnology is revealed as a new technological paradigm that offers a radical change in the solution of technological problems and that generates a new wave of processes, products, and social and organizational systems. Thus, innovation convergence in nanotechnology involves both scientific and technological sources of knowledge as well as organizational forms that enable the development of the technology. The objective of this article is to analyze the phenomenon of nanotechnology convergence in the dynamics of the technological innovation of countries, particularly if it is possible for countries to converge on innovation in this technological paradigm. The findings of this research allow corroborating the convergence in this new technological paradigm between countries in the long-term, in the measure that the less advanced countries reach greater rates of growth in terms of innovation in nanotechnology than the leading country, conditioned to achieving a greater accumulation of technological knowledge through the citation of patents prior to the patents granted in nanotechnology.

Palabras llave : Conditional technological and innovation convergence; nanotechnology paradigm; O33; O47.