Dominant design or multiple designs: the flash memory card case

Vries, Henk J. de; Ruijter, J.P.M. de; Argam, Najim

doi:10.1080/09537325.2011.550393

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“…If so, this could be attributed to the characteristics of the communication technologies next to technoeconomic considerations. Similar battles where multiple technologies co-exist have occurred in consumer electronics (video gaming consoles [38]) and in information technology (memory cards [66]). The geographical indicator (urban or rural) is an underlying determinant of the technological field in which the standard is used.…”

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Realizing smart meter connectivity: Analyzing the competing technologies Power line communication, mobile telephony, and radio frequency using the best worst method

Kaa

Fens

Rezaei

et al. 2019

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The world is faced with various societal challenges related to e.g. climate change and energy scarcity. To address these issues, complex innovative systems may be developed such as smart grids. When these systems are realized challenges pertaining to renewable energy and sustainability may, in part, be solved. To implement them, generally accepted common standards should be developed and used by firms and society so that the technological components can be connected and quality and safety requirements of smart grids and their governance can be guaranteed. This paper studies a subcomponent of the smart grid. Specifically, the paper studies competing technologies for a standard means of interface between the smart meter and the concentration point for collecting meter data. Three types of communication technologies for the interface are currently battling for standard dominance: Power line communication, Mobile telephony, and Radio frequency. Nine relevant standard dominance factors were found: operational supremacy, technological superiority, compatibility, flexibility, pricing strategy, timing of entry, current installed base, regulator, and suppliers. The Best-Worst Method was applied to calculate the factors' relative weights. The results show that experts believe that Power line communication has a high chance of becoming dominant and that the most important factor affecting standard success is technological superiority. The relative weights per factor are explained and theoretical and practical contributions, limitations, and areas for further research are discussed.

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confidence: 92%

Realizing smart meter connectivity: Analyzing the competing technologies Power line communication, mobile telephony, and radio frequency using the best worst method

Kaa

Fens

Rezaei

et al. 2019

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Technological evolution can increase or decrease the intensity of rivalry by raising or lowering fixed costs and hence changing the incentives for price cutting by incumbents. Firms pursue diverse product innovation strategies in their quest to establish a dominant design (de Vries et al, 2011). Once a dominant design is established, process innovation, rather than product innovation, characterizes mature technologies.…”

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Boundary conditions of the mutual forbearance hypothesis: Impact of technology evolution on multimarket competition

Roy

Sarkar

2022

Manage Decis Econ

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Our study explores the intricate relationships between technology evolution and innovation, informing the mutual forbearance hypothesis. We propose that in high technology industries, the hypothesis is governed by the stage of technology evolution and is not deterministic. We show how mutual forbearance increases progressively as technology evolves from the emergence phase to the maturity phase. Then, based on a convenient sample of firms from the disk drive industry between 1991 and 1995, an era of ferment prior to the establishment of the dominant design, we examine our hypothesis and find support for mutual forbearance in the mature phase of the technology lifecycle.

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“…For example, some digital cameras implement both FireWire and USB. De Vries et al [55] label these as multi-channel end systems and claim that this is one of the factors that may cause multiple designs to remain, although other factors seem to predict a clear winner. Another factor for multiple designs, also applicable in our case, is that distinct features may be important for certain customers: FireWire established a sustainable position in the market for peripherals requiring a high-bandwidth data connection.…”

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“…Using the case of smart phone operating systems, Riegman and De Vries [56] add even more factors for multiple designs. This suggests that three situations may apply: (1) co-existence of two or more designs, each with a substantial market share (examples: game consoles [16], flash memory cards [55]), (2) one clear winner but one or more losers with a good or even a major share in one or a few niche markets (USB versus FireWire), and (3) one winner taking all: no more new products in which the losing formats are applied (the other cases in this paper). These three situations result from an interplay between different factors.…”

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confidence: 99%