Digital technologies such as e-commerce, mobile applications, and platform-based businesses are enabling the formation of new industries by creating direct connections and disintermediating traditional sectors.
Innovations that start by solving specific efficiency problems evolve into General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) that transform entire economies through a seven-stage process.
Industries like aerospace, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, agriculture, and energy are systematically applying e-commerce principles to disintermediate traditional intermediaries and create direct connections, leading to the formation of new markets.
The framework of identifying intermediary inefficiencies, applying digital platform principles, creating direct connections, and enabling other sectors serves as a guide for future industry formation opportunities in the digital age.