| Titre | L'économie des passerelles technologiques et l'évolution des réseaux | |
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| Auteur | Paul A.David, Julie Ann Bunn | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 4, avril-juin 1991 | |
| Page | 15-29 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Paul A. DAVID & Julie A. BUNN, The economics of gateway technologies and network evolution. This paper is concerned with the role played by so-called gateway technologies in the development of network industries. They rest their argument on a real-life example: the influence of the rotary converter innovation on the expansion of a.cj technology (and the eviction of d.c.) in the power supply industry in the US at the turn of the century (1890-1910). The first part of the paper is published here. First the authors suggest modified definitions, based on different technical examples, of widely-used concepts, such as innovation, standard, compatibility, and introduce a new concept, that of gateway technologies (between incompatible syb-systems). And secondly they examine the historical context of the 'Battle of the Currents' that burst into public view in the US at the end of the 1880s, as well as subsequent interpretations of it in the literature. In the second part of the paper, to be published in FLUX no.6, the authors re-examine these historical events, while more particularly laying stress on the influence of the rotary converter, viewed as a gateway innovation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1991_num_7_4_1150 |
