Crossing the Valley of Death—An Integrated Framework and a Value Chain for Emerging Technologies

The paper develops an integrated technology-push and market-pull framework, a value chain model for crossing the valley of death (VOD - the gap between laboratory and market) for emerging technologies based on primary and secondary data analyses, and a survey conducted on European research and development projects. The study uses a case of micro- and nano-manufacturing technology (MNT), and confirms the existence of the VOD through the survey...