The Origins of New Industries: The Case of the Mobile Internet

Jeffrey L. Funk
Additional contact information
Jeffrey L. Funk: Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Japan

No 134, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: This paper describes a model of new industry formation that is based on evolutionary theories of technical change. It represents the origins of new network industries as the interaction between multiple technological trajectories that are specific to a particular technology or broadly defined technological regime. The speed with which these multiple trajectories cause industry formation depends on their effective application to the most economical applications; this process occurs through the interaction between design hierarchies and market concepts. Growth in these initial applications causes sub-trajectories or sub-regimes, where competition in the new industry initially takes place, to emerge from the main trajectories. The model is applied to the mobile Internet, an industry that has just started to grow particularly in Japan and Korea.

Keywords: Origins; Industry; Technology; Trajectory; Design; Hierarchy; Market; Competition; Cooperation; Disruptive; Mobile; Internet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2003-02
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rieb.kobe-u.ac.jp/academic/ra/dp/English/dp134.PDF First version, 2003 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kob:dpaper:134

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University 2-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501 JAPAN. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Office of Promoting Research Collaboration, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University ().