Projects
Nanotech Business Models
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NANOTECH BUSINESS MODELS This relatively new area of my research portfolio is devoted to dig deep into the drivers of the emergence and affirmation of a handful of new nanotech business models in the global context, as follows to the on-going disintegration process of the nanotech value chain. Another related stream refers to the progressive inauguration of a convergence path between nanotech and biotech business models. |
KEY QUESTIONS
- What is a business model?
- What is a nanotech business model?
- What kind(s) of nanotech business models do we know?
- What kind(s) of nanotech business models can we detect?
THE OSTERWALDER-TEECE CONNECTION IN B-MODELS
- How is it possible to create, deliver and capture value in nanotech settings?
- How is it possible to entice nanotech customers to pay for value and convert their payments to economic profit?
TRADITIONAL NANOTECH BUSINESS MODELS
- Fab
- Fabless
- Fabless and Foundry: Integrated Devices Manufacturers (IDMs)
IDMs EXAMPLES:
Texas Instruments, Cypress Semiconductor, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Toshiba, and Intel
EMERGING NANOTECH BUSINESS MODEL: THREE PIECES IN THE VALUE CHAIN
- “Fabless design house” – competences required: research, design and sales
- “Foundry service” – a service organization that caters to the “fab” or processing and manufacturing of silicon wafers
- “Assembly service”- deals with assembly tests
NEW AND EMERGING ACTORS IN THE NANOTECH ARENA
- Dedicated Venture Capital Investors
- Collaborative Nanotech Initiatives or Alliances
- Small Fabless Firms
- Virtual Fab
CALL TO ARMS: Open areas for research and practice
- Fine-grained comparative analyses of nanotech business models
- Comparative analysis of biotech and nanotech business models
- Detecting evolutionary path(s) to nanotech hybrid business models
- Nanotech business model portfolio
- Governance of nanotech business models
- Nanotech cluster models
SEE ALSO THE PDF
Presentation for the Winter School on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Pinsot, France, 30 March 2011
