Industry Evolution

PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT ELSEVIER The Journal of Product Innovation Management 18 (2001) 28-38 How integrating industrial design in the product development process impacts on company performance Gerda Gemser3'*, Mark AAM Leendersb "University of ...

Additive manufacturing (AM), more popularly known as ‘3D printing’, is believed by many commentators to be underpinning a new manufacturing revolution. AM encompasses a broad range of manufacturing process technologies that are emerging to offer the prospect of on-demand, mass personalisation, with more localised, flexible and sustainable production. Its adoption and implementation could disrupt the organisation of manufacturing and the ways in which companies capture value. This special issue presents seven papers and identifies key gaps in knowledge relating to the emergence and diffusion of additive manufacturing technologies. 46 research questions are proposed for further investigation.

This article examines the development of the game industry in Japan and South Korea with particular attention to the role of the government in fostering a creative industrial sector. Although the Japanese game industry achieved market-oriented growth until the 1990s, the government's involvement in the industry became salient after the new millennium. Games were positioned as main sources for creating internationally competitive media contents, and the government has provided environments where innovative companies and individuals can develop their skills and expertises and intensified the protection of intellectual property rights overseas. Unlike Japan, the development of the game industry was sustained by intensive government intervention in South Korea. The government changed the basic perception of the industry from a negative amusement industry to a positive cultural industry to be fostered for the new millennium. Then, the government set up an affiliated organisation that undertook a wide range of measures from technological upgrading, managerial and human resource development, global connections, and education. Thus, the Korean state still intends to foster a strategic industry but its manner of commitments became comprehensive and flexible.

The European food industry has been regulated for a long time. Since the 1960s, the European market has been protected from imports by relatively high taxes. Companies in Europe therefore never had to fear real competition from outside the Union in their domestic markets. This changed, when, due to WTO negotiations, markets had to be more deregulated. Facing international competition, within the European food industry the concentration increased, leading to unified, oligopolistic markets. Trying to realise scale and scope effects, companies adopted growth strategies both within their national and international markets. Although scale and scope effects are still important, the focus to increase profitability and secure company survival is differentiation, or the creation of customer value in products and brands. Using such terms as 'demand-driven chains and networks', 'turning around chains', 'consumer orientation', 'customer orientation' or &#...

©Copyright JASSS JASSS logo. Javier Pajares, Cesáreo Hernández-Iglesias and Adolfo López-Paredes (2004). Modelling Learning and R&D in Innovative Environments: a Cognitive Multi-Agent Approach. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 7, no. ...

©Copyright JASSS JASSS logo. Javier Pajares, Cesáreo Hernández-Iglesias and Adolfo López-Paredes (2004). Modelling Learning and R&D in Innovative Environments: a Cognitive Multi-Agent Approach. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 7, no. ...

This paper addresses the problem of the general validity of models of the industry life cycle, which have been proposed to analyse the long-term evolution of many industries, exhibiting a typical pattern of shakeout. We study a case of non shake-out in the commercial jet aero-engine industry, marked by a small number of entry events distributed over 40 years of

Endogenous growth theory suggests that technological knowledge stimulates growth, yet the micro foundations of this process remain obscure. Knowledge spillover theory posits that growth is contingent on the technology dependence of industries, forming the landscape for entrepreneurs to launch and grow ventures. We investigate these theoretical contingencies with two research questions using comprehensive employee-employer data documenting the science and technology labor force in Sweden: First, do industries with a greater need for new technology-based entrepreneurship grow disproportionately faster than other industries? Second, are the knowledge spillover effects fostering the growth of new technology based firms contingent on certain industry structures?

The Vietnamese software industry has shown substantial development in recent years. On the basis of interviews with informed respondents this article investigates the condition and potential for further development of the industry, using a soft systems approach. Finegold's eco-system model is used to build a model of the industry. Partnerships and networks are identified as important factors in industry evolution,

©Copyright JASSS JASSS logo. Javier Pajares, Cesáreo Hernández-Iglesias and Adolfo López-Paredes (2004). Modelling Learning and R&D in Innovative Environments: a Cognitive Multi-Agent Approach. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 7, no. ...

The application of System Dynamics to operationalise the resource-based view (RBV) of Strategy makes possible a coherent theory of the dynamics of strategic performance. This framework explains firm-performance over time in terms of the mutual interdependence between its strategic resources, and makes explicit the process of rivalry between firms.

Interest in the study of long-term change at industry level has been growing, yet there have been few industry studies outside the manufacturing sector. This paper looks to address this by drawing from longitudinal research that examines the drivers of industry evolution by focusing empirically on the wholesale sector. The findings confirm the importance of efficiency but indicate that power