{"id":13613,"date":"2025-03-27T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:35:36","slug":"forum-20250409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/2025\/03\/27\/forum-20250409\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum 2025.4.9 David A. Kirsch"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Date\uff1a<\/strong><\/span>
April 9\uff08Wednesday), 2025
from 17:30 to 19:00<\/p>

Topic:<\/strong><\/span>
\u201cUnlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery\u201d<\/p>

Speaker:<\/strong><\/span>
David A. Kirsch
(Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the College of Information Studies (by courtesy) at the University of Maryland)<\/p>

Abstract:
<\/strong><\/span>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 \u201cgenerality\u201d 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 \u201cpotential\u201d GPTs.<\/p>

Venue:<\/strong><\/span>
onsite<\/span>
IIR Laboratory 2 (Room#219) of the second floor of the IIR building<\/p>

Organizer:
<\/strong><\/span>Masaru Karube<\/p>

This forum is jointly organized by MIC (Management Innovation Research Center), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study.<\/p>

Deadline:<\/strong><\/span>
9:00, April 9, 2025<\/p>

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Date\uff1aApril 9\uff08Wednesday), 2025from 17:30 to 19:00 Topic:\u201cUnlocking Generality: Resurfacing Uncertainty Across Applications of the Lithium-ion Battery\u201d Speaker:David A. Kirsch(Associate Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the College of Information Studies (by courtesy) at the University of Maryland) 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 \u201cgenerality\u201d is an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum","category-iir-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13627,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions\/13627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}