Triggered Emerging Technologies: Technologies newly appeared in the last two years and bigger than average growth rate;
Associated Emerging Technologies: Technologies co-occurred with leading technologies in the last two years;
Matured Emerging Technologies: Technologies to be reached into maturity phase in two years from now;
Referred Emerging Technologies: Technologies mostly referred by other emerging technologies;
Derived Emerging Technologies: Technologies newly appeared on developing other emerging technologies.
对这些亚新兴技术感兴趣的,可以参考下面这篇论文:
Jinhyung Kim, Seungwoo Lee, Jinhee Lee, Mikyung Lee, and Hanmin Jung, 2011. Design of TOD Model for Analyzing Technology Trends and Predicting Future Trends. FGIT-UNESST, pp. 301-305.