Author(s):
Mendonça, Sandro ; Damásio, Bruno ; Freitas, Luciano Charlita de ; Oliveira, Luís ; Cichy, Marcin ; Nicita, António
Date: 2022
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/146764
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Project/scholarship:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04152%2F2020/PT;
Subject(s): 5G; Bibliometrics; Breakthrough technologies; Innovation; Policy; Telecommunications; Management Information Systems; Information Systems; Communication; Economics and Econometrics; Library and Information Sciences; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Description
Mendonça, S., Damásio, B., Freitas, L. C. D., Oliveira, L., Cichy, M., & Nicita, A. (2022). The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production. Telecommunications Policy, 46(4), 1-28. [102327]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102327 ---%ABS1% --- Funding Information:The authors are thankful to the Special Issue editors and three reviewers for the iterations and advice. We would also like to express our gratitude to Erik Bohlin and Martin Richard Whitehead for their useful comments. Sandro Mendonça acknowledges support from FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), Portugal, and the support provided by Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL) and Research Unit on Complexity and Economics (UECE-REM). The work also benefited from grants UID/GES/00315/2013,UIDB/00315/2020; UIDB/05069/2020; PTDC/EGE-ECO/30690/2017 and is part of the project PTDC/EGE-ECO/30690/2017. Bruno Damásio acknowledges the financial support provided by FCT Portugal under the project UIDB/04152/2020 - Centro de Investigação em Gestão de Informação (MagIC). Although some of the authors have professional links with regulators and international institutions, in the present (ANACOM, Anatel, ECB, RCB, Italy, OECD) or in the recent past (AGCOM, UKE), this piece is written in their personal and scientific capacities. All the views and shortcomings remain the responsibility of the authors alone.
The advent of a new generation of wireless communications has punctuated the dawn of every decade in recent times. Upgrades to mobile electronic systems represent faster and more robust capabilities of data transfer but bring with it a wide set of complementary changes as they are underpinned by harmonised specific spectrum bands, fresh international technical standards, new network operation requirements, innovative cellular devices as well as new services and a broader array of potential commercial use applications. This paper presents a systematic outline of the development of 5G-related research until 2020 as revealed by over 10,000 science and technology publications. The exercise addresses the emergence, growth, and impact of this body of work and offers insights regarding disciplinary distribution, international performance, and historical dynamics. Findings reveal the progressive growth of the 5G research over the years after original contributions in 2010 and point to a “take-off” around 2014. A set of stylised facts regarding this technology since its infancy are of interest to engineers, regulators and innovation strategists and policy-makers.
