Graphene enterprise : mapping innovation and business development in a strategic emerging technology

Shapira, Philip and Gök, Abdullah and Salehi, Fatemeh (2016) Graphene enterprise : mapping innovation and business development in a strategic emerging technology. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 18 (9). 269. ISSN 1388-0764 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-016-3572-1)

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Abstract

This paper explores enterprise development and commercialization in the field of graphene. Firm characteristics and relationships, value chain positioning, and factors associated with product entry are examines for a set of 65 graphene-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises located in 16 different countries. As well as secondary sources and bibliometric methods to profile developments in graphene, we use computerized data mining and analytical techniques, including cluster and regression modeling, to identify patterns from publicly available online information on enterprise web sites. We identify groups of graphene small and medium-sized enterprises differentiated by how they are involved with graphene, the materials they target, whether they make equipment, and their orientation towards science and intellectual property. In general, access to finance and the firms’ location are significant factors that are associated with graphene product introductions. We also find that patents and scientific publications are not statistically significant predictors of product development in our sample of graphene enterprises. We further identify a cohort of graphene-oriented firms that are signaling plans to develop intermediate graphene products that should have higher value in the marketplace. Our findings suggest that policy needs to ensure attention to the introduction and scale-up of downstream intermediate and final graphene products and associated financial, intermediary, and market identification support. The paper demonstrates novel data methods that can be combined with existing information for real-time intelligence to understand and map enterprise development and commercialization in a rapidly emerging and growing new technology.

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Shapira, Philip, Gök, Abdullah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9378-3336 and Salehi, Fatemeh;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:64523
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    30 September 2016
    Published
    6 September 2016
    Published Online
    20 August 2016
    Accepted
    Notes:This work was supported by Nesta (Project on Mapping Innovation and Business Growth in a Strategic Emerging Technology: new data sources and methods for real-time intelligence on graphene enterprise development and commercialization); and by the Economic and Social Research Council [Grant Number ES/J012785/1] as part of the project on emerging technologies, Trajectories and Implications of Next Generation Innovation Systems Development in China and Russia. M1 - 269
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Commerce
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:20 Jun 2018 07:56
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 12:01
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/64523
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