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      • Central to the idea of lock-in is that technologies and technological systems follow specific paths that are difficult and costly to escape. Consequently, they tend to persist for extended periods, even in the face of competition from potentially superior substitutes.
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  2. Jan 1, 2023 · Introduced in the early 2000s, the concept of carbon “lock-in” has been widely adopted by think tanks, academics, and civil society trying to break away from the consequences of fossil-fuel induced carbon emissions and climate change. The concept has been instrumental to energy economic policy, energy transitions, and automobile ...

  3. Aug 6, 2023 · Ecosystem lock-in refers to a situation where customers become heavily dependent on a particular company's products, services, or technologies, making it difficult for them to switch to alternatives offered by competitors.

  4. Oct 17, 2014 · The article presents an overview of the evolutionary approach to eco-innovations with particular emphasis on the role of lock-in and path dependence. In doing so, it focuses on the processes of radical change and the transition of technological systems that require the co-evolution of technology, firms, institutions and the society as a whole.

    • Grazia Cecere, Grazia Cecere, Nicoletta Corrocher, Cédric Gossart, Muge Ozman
    • 2014
  5. Central to the idea of lock-in is that technologies and technological systems follow specific paths that are difficult and costly to escape. Consequently, they tend to persist for extended periods, even in the face of competition from potentially superior substitutes.

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  6. lock-in. Two of these meanings are common in the economy but provide no sup- port for the claims that remediable errors occur. The third meaning, which does imply irremediable error, we show to be based on highly restrictive and implausi- ble assumptions. The analysis is illustrated by examining the market's choice of. video-recorder formats.

  7. Sep 18, 2023 · This article describes six distinct domains of lock-in: technological, social, economic, individual, institutional, and epistemic. Following this description, strategies for unlocking lock-in, broadly and by domain, are explored before being contextualized to infrastructure systems.

  8. Oct 28, 2021 · In this conceptual study, we drew on the literature on information systems (IS) to investigate the characteristics of digital technology and outline the effects of digital innovation on switching costs, network externalities, and ultimately, lock-in.

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