【Event Number】
20250011
・This event is subject to the point system.
Please be sure to register for the seminar using the form below.
https://forms.gle/BW7bzkrCkzUzv52CA
Please send us your feedback within 3 days after the seminar to the following address.
miwa.eriko.7k*kyoto-u.ac.jp (Please change *to@ )
【Brief Overview】
“Unlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery”
David A. Kirsch
University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business
Associate Professor
https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/david-kirsch
Abstract: Studies of industry emergence have often generated insights from empirical contexts with a one-to-one correspondence between a technology and its application. In parallel, studies of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) have documented the economic impact and versatility of technologies with broad downstream applications, although these studies often abstract away from the endogenous and gradual process through which a single technology underpins multiple downstream markets, in practice assuming that “generality” is an intrinsic, ex ante observable attribute of a given technology. To address the research gap at this intersection, this study leverages the applicability of lithium-ion batteries in multiple applications: consumer electronics, electric vehicles, space missions, and utility grids. Using a longitudinal, multi-level, single-case analysis, this study proposes a conceptual framework about the impediments to the diffusion of a single technology to multiple applications, including application-specific uncertainties that resurface in each application, and their system-wide implications for commercial viability at each technology-application nexus. The conclusion considers the circumstances under which these impediments and associated investments may generalize to other “potential” GPTs.
“Industry Dynamics and the Historian’s Lens: Method, Theory, and the Oxford Handbook”
Takafumi Kurosawa
Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University
Professor
【Eligible Person】
Kyoto University GSM students, faculty, and the general public
【Language】
English
【Venue】
SMBC Hall on B1F, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg., Kyoto University
【Leading Person】
Tomoki SEKIGUCHI, Professor
【Admission fee】
No
【Registration】
Please register using the form below.
https://forms.gle/BW7bzkrCkzUzv52CA
Deadline is Apr. 17th, 23:59, the day before the seminar.
【Contact】
miwa.eriko.7k*kyoto-u.ac.jp
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