Industry Evolution and Cross-Sectoral Skill Transfers: A Comparative Analysis of the Video Game Industry in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom

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Under the radar: Industry entry by user entrepreneurs (2010, background): “The animation industry is probably the closest link to the video game industry, in that both share substantial talents (Aoyama and Izushi, 2003; Izushi and Aoyama, 2006).”
Creating and capturing value from freemium business models: A demand-side perspective (2018, background): “The computer game industry gained popularity in the early 1980s after the home video game console industry crashed and hobbyist game developers began creating games for computer platforms such as the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC (Izushi and Aoyama, 2006).”
Sexy, Strong, and Secondary: A Content Analysis of Female Characters in Video Games across 31 Years (2016, background): “Video game technology in the United States emerged in the 1950s and 1960s in close connection to the burgeoning U.S. computer industry (Izushi & Aoyama, 2006).”
Creative industries in the netherlands: structure, development, innovativeness and effects on urban growth (2008, background): “This characterization is based on observations in the Nether- lands, which may not apply to creative industries in other countries (see Izushi and Aoyama 2006; Lorenzen 2007).”