Lechevalier, Sébastien; Nishimura, Junichi; Storz, Cornelia - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 10, pp. 1716-1729
How do new industries emerge? This paper aims to answer this question by analyzing the key actors in this process. We focus on the new industry of service robot. By using data of Japanese patent applications, we analyze the role of new firms and of collaborations. We find that the emergence of...