- Date&Time: December 17 (TUE), 16:00~17:00

- Venue: KDI SCHOOL S306 & Online (Zoom)

- Speaker: Munjung Kim (PhD Student in Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington)

- Title: Uncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness

- Abstract: Progress in science and technology is punctuated by disruptive innovation and breakthroughs . Researchers have characterized these disruptions to explore factors that might spark such innovations—including team size and modes of communication—and to analyze long-term trends and abundance of such breakthroughs. However, although understanding disruptive breakthroughs and their drivers hinges upon accurately quantifying disruptiveness, the central indicator—the disruption index—has not been thoroughly understood and tested. Here, after demonstrating the critical shortcomings of the disruption index, we propose a new, continuous measure of disruptiveness that overcomes these limitations. Our measure not only better distinguishes disruptive works, such as Nobel Prize-winning papers, from others, but also reveals simultaneous disruptions or “multiples” that the disruption index obscures, by allowing us to examine the “twins” [13] that have the most similar future context. By offering a more robust and precise measure to uncover disruptive innovations—particularly simultaneous discoveries—our study may deepen our understanding of the mechanisms behind breakthroughs across science and technology and provide a more equitable foundation for evaluating contributions.

- RSVP: https://forms.gle/AqR9SSsxtpCLf8QD8

* To secure your place, please RSVP by December 15th.

* Find out more information about the speaker → https://munjungkim.github.io/

※ Questions : Learning Innovation Division / mj_seo@kidschool.ac.kr