 Diversity in patterns of industry evolution: How an intrapreneurial regime contributed to the emergence of the service robot industrySebastien Lechevalier, J. Nishimura and C. Storz Post-Print from HAL Abstract: How do new industries emerge? This paper aims to answer this question by analyzing the key actors in this process. We focus on the new industry of service robot. By using data of Japanese patent applications, we analyze the role of new firms and of collaborations. We find that the emergence of the industry is mainly triggered by established large firms, rather than by new firms. We further show that collaborations are at the core of new industry formation, but that they possess distinct properties. As the emergence of this new industry matches to the characteristics of Japan's institutional and knowledge regime we essentially argue that the notion of regimes with fewer start-ups being inefficient is erroneous. Our main conclusion is that industry emergence in intrapreneurial regimes seems to be distinctive from entrepreneurial regimes. Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation System; Intrapreneurship; Japanese Innovation System; Mobile Robots; New Industry; Robot Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Research Policy, In press, 43 (10), ⟨10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.012⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02484796 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.012 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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