REPORT: OLEDS and E-PAPER: Their disruptive potential for the European display industry
Advanced Topics in the Economics of Innovation
Bruno Van Pottelsberghe
María Catalán Herreros ECON4P
Index
• Introduction • Critical Analysis • EU Paradox • Intellectual Property and appropiation strategy • Conclusion • Sources • Appendices
Introduction
INDUSTRY
Electronic visual displays How can we define an electronic visual display? It is a piece of electrical equipment which performs as output device for presentation of images transmitted electronically, for visual reception, without producing a permanent record. Common applications for electronic visual displays are television sets or computer monitors.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
Introduction
This industry is characterized by...
• Rapidly growing industry - € 100 billion global market
Production
- growing at about 10% per year Value
• Asian suppliers dominate
• Market dominated by LCD Technology
Introduction
OLED: New Technology
OLEDs (Organic light-emitting diode)
What's OLED? Polymers that emit light when a current is passed through them in one direction. In multi-pixel colour form, OLEDs can be used for displays for ICT,consumer goods and industrial applications. In the single-pixel form, OLEDs can be used as a new kind of lighting.
Introduction
REMARK !!!
Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to describe OLEDs as a “new technology” OLEDs are really a family of technologies.
For example: - SM-OLED (small-molecule OLED) - PLED (polymer light emitting diodes) - TOLED (Transparent OLED) - SOLED (Stacked OLED) - PMOLED (Passive-matrix OLED) - AMOLED (Active-matrix OLED)
Introduction
OLED Development
•1989: OLED was discovered in a useful form, KODAK •1991: University research, Cambridge (CDT) •1994: Launch of industrial R&D •1998: First OLED product on the marketplace •Today New OLED industry
OLED market forecast to reach $6B by 2012
SOURCE: