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| Author: | McGarth, R. |
| Title: | Effects of incumbency and R&D affiliation on the legimitation of electric vehicle technologies |
| Journal: | Technological forecasting and social change
1999 : MAR, VOL. 60:3, p. 247-262 |
| Index terms: | R&D TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING SOCIAL CHANGE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Non-economic forces distort "rational" competitions among emerging technologies and associated trajectories. For example, incumbent and credibly affiliated firms use their legitimacy to promote their technological preferences and denigrate the efforts of less legitimate firms. This article reports results of a study which examines these dynamics in the competition among emerging electrochemical innovations aimed at the electric vehicle industry. It also presents the first-known use of the technology forecasting technique called morphological analysis in business academia. |
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