South Korea became the first country in the world to launch a nationwide 5G network and
commercialize 5G services. The Korean government played an essential role in the …

This study examines the factors that shaped the long-term evolution of the information and
communication technology (ICT) industry in Sweden, 1950–2013. Using a new historical …

Despite the growing attention innovation ecosystems have received from scholars and
practitioners, rather little is known about the crucial birth and expansion phases that these …

Novel technologies often face difficulties in market uptake, especially when they differ
significantly from already established technologies. In some cases, like personalized …

For more than three decades, enthusiasts have predicted that direct manufacturing enabled
by 3D printing would inevitably supplant traditional manufacturing methods. Alas, for nearly …

Bottlenecks have recently emerged as one of the key objects of inquiry in research on
innovation ecosystems. The broader literature is split into two streams on technological and …

Experts have more difficulty identifying reverse salients in R&D because of increasing
technological complexity and a shortened technology lifecycle. As an alternative, we …

The notion of development blocks (Dahmén, 1950, 1991) suggests the co-evolution of
technologies and industries through complementarities and the overcoming of imbalances …

Technological system evolution is marked by the uneven evolution of constituent sub-
systems. Subsequently, system evolution is hampered by the resulting state of unevenness …

This study identifies and analyzes the causes for WiBro's failure in the Korean
telecommunications market within the context of the technological systems framework and …