@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0628, TITLE={Technological convergence: the case of the autonomous electric vehicle}, AUTHOR={Richard Le Goff, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={6}, NUMBER={Issue 2}, YEAR={2021}, URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Technological-convergence-the-case-of-the-autonomous-electric-vehicle}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2021.0628}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={Industrial emergence based on total or partial mergers of sectors formerly organized in silos remains a blind spot in industrial economics. The "augmented markets" approach constitutes an alternative to the industrial life cycle and the technological innovation system approaches to provide elements for interpreting strategic movements that characterize significant sectoral dynamics today. In this paper, we propose using the economic dominance theory (EDT) to associate the technology and the sector. The EDT ensures, upstream of any attempt of empirical validation at the "production" and "market" levels, that the technological foundations of sectoral emergence through convergence are indeed present.}}