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	Fuel Cell Industry Development Project
Overview	The fuel cell has been championed to represent a major breakthrough in clean power generation. In this project we are involved in analysing the development and commercialisation of the technology from both innovation and market penetration directions. Patent analysis of the fuel cell domain has shown concentration of firms and technologies which could signal the birth of new industries and innovations. At the same time, the markets under which new firm and technologies have to operate and compete to enter an incumbent and dominant design led industry need to be fully understood before commercialisation. This has been achieved by adopting the COPs framework for Complex Product Systems which examines not only the new product itself but also the entire delivery, maintenance and operating environment.
Publications	“Defining Key Inventors: A Comparison of Fuel Cell and Nanotechnology Industries,” with L. Lee, C. Chan and S. Ramakrishna, NUS, Singapore, forthcoming Technology Forecasting and Social Change, (2008) Vol. 75. “Gales of Creative Destruction and the Opportunistic Hurricane: the case of Electric Vehicles in California”, with R. Dyerson, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, (2005) Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 391-408. “Technology portfolio alignment as an indicator of commercialisation: An investigation of fuel cell patenting,” Technovation, (2004) Vol.24 No.10, pp.761-771. “Expecting the Unexpected: Disruptive Technological Change Processes and the Electric Vehicle,” International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, (2004) Vol. 1, No. 2, pp.165-184. “Inventive Concentration: An Analysis of Fuel Cell Patents,” with C.Liston-Heyes, Science and Public Policy, (2004). Vol. 31, No. 1, p.15-25. "Technology Commercialisation: Patent Portfolio Alignment and the Fuel Cell,” in D.Kogaoglu and T.Anderson (eds.) Technology Management for Reshaping the World, Portland, (2003) pp.400-412. “Introducing Alternative Technologies: The case of the electric vehicle”, Chapter 21 in R.Dorf, (ed.) Technology, Humans, and Society, Academic Press, San Diego (2001) pp. 389-94. Key Inventors and Key Firms in Fuel Cell Development: A Patent Analysis, Research Paper Series, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, # SoM-0605, (2006) pp. 17. Emissions or Economics: The Status and Potential of Alternative Fuel Technology, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, UCD-ITS-RR-97-13, (1997) pp.58.
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