) Innovative Opportunities: What do we learn from opportunities in mobile communications?

摘要: This paper explores the question of how and why actors innovate in terms identifying, acting upon realizing new combinations resources identified market needs, within a larger economic system. By characterising three types opportunities applying to an analysis emergence mobile communications, argues that more abstract general conceptualization may be warranted. Thus, ‘innovative opportunities’ is defined characterised through conceptual empirical illustrations. The uses illustrative cases from early development technical standards telecommunication, including 3G i-mode. proposes means combine literature on science, technology innovation especially around ‘search activities’ for technologies with ‘entrepreneurship venture creation’.