دورية أكاديمية

Shifting entrepreneurial landscape and development performance of water startups in emerging water markets.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Shifting entrepreneurial landscape and development performance of water startups in emerging water markets.
المؤلفون: Peiyuan Liu, Yuxiong Huang, Slav W Hermanowicz
المصدر: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 2, p e0246282 (2021)
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: Emerging technologies have driven the rise of many water-related startups and created new opportunities in water markets. The global water crisis could be mitigated by applying innovative technologies, sound water management decisions, and successful business models, and it is essential to better understand the status and future trends of emerging water markets. This study aims to discover shifts in the entrepreneurial landscape and evaluate water startups' development performance for the sustainable development of emerging water markets. We collected and analyzed data including the founding date, service area, service provided, details of funding raised, revenues, and consumer responses on 132 water startups founded between 2008 and 2018 in California, USA. Our results indicated that municipal area dominated the emerging water startup market compared to agricultural and industrial areas, and that many of the services provided shifted from conventional technologies to digital technologies. Though digital water startups' current revenues were relatively low, digital techniques applied in the water industry exhibited the good potential to promote public health and water saving. The development trends and performance of water startups enlighten the technological and commercial revolutions in the emerging water market, and provide guidelines for the decision-making in relevant stakeholders in the scientific, governmental, and industrial communities.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246282
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/7477e6fb56464820978716680a10647f
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.7477e6fb56464820978716680a10647f
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0246282