The study of emerging industries: Recognizing and responding to some central problems

A brief history of the idea of opportunity

“…Just as this chapter only slightly touches on what a history of the idea of opportunity might entail, our offering suggestions about how history might be used as a way to enhance insights into current scholarship will be even more brief. The practice of doing history is complicated, and the idea about how and why the practice of history is useful for entrepreneurial scholarship is both an old idea (Schumpeter, 1947) and a new one (Casson and Godley, 2005;Forbes and Kirsch, 2010;Popp and Holt, 2013;Wadhwani and Jones, 2014). Suffice to say, the previous references will be a window into this line of inquiry.…”

The Effects of Exogenous Shocks on the Development of Regional Innovation Systems

“…9 Sector experts refer to individuals with specialised knowledge of developments in the oil and gas industry. Forbes and Kirsch (2011) argue that additional qualitative empirical studies are needed to fully understand emerging industries and that scholars must gather and analyse more comprehensive data on the larger context of industry creation. This study was conducted in parallel with a number of events that eventually facilitated regional development.…”

“…By monitoring events as they unfolded, the data material thus managed to capture the evolutionary aspect of how a region transformed owing to an exogenous shock. This approach made it possible to acquire data that may have been difficult to obtain in later stages (Forbes and Kirsch, 2011).…”

Configuration of supply chains in emerging industries: a multiple-case study in the wave-and-tidal energy industry

“…This leads the new ventures to engage in unstructured searches for potential supply chain partners. While the need for research in this area is explicit (Baril et al, 2012;Harrington et al, 2011;Forbes and Kirsch, 2011), the availability of published empirically-based papers remains limited and scattered. The objective of this paper is to explore supply chain configuration models for firms in emerging industries.…”