Ex ante identification of disruptive innovations in the software industry applied to web applications: The case of Microsoft's vs. Google's office applications

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1044-1054

  Keller, Andreas ^a   Hüsig, Stefan ^b  

^a University of Regensburg ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disruptive innovation; Disruptive innovations; Disruptive technologies; Disruptive technology; Ex ante identification; Google; Microsoft; Network effects; Office applications; Software industry; Software markets; Technological forecasting; Web 2.0; Web applications

Indexed keywords

DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION; DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; EX ANTE IDENTIFICATION; GOOGLE; MICROSOFT; NETWORK EFFECTS; OFFICE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE MARKETS; WEB 2.0; WEB APPLICATIONS;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; FORECASTING METHOD; INNOVATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 69449087870     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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