naa a22 4500 510794629 CHVBK 20180411083331.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11277-013-1062-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11277-013-1062-7 Tiarawut Supot Chulalongkorn University, 10500, Bangkok, Thailand aut Mobile Technology: Opportunity for Entrepreneurship [Elektronische Daten] [Supot Tiarawut] The recent extraordinary growth of smart phones and tablets gives rise to the mobile application market. It opens up opportunity for new type of entrepreneurs to tap into the fast-growing mobile application market, bypassing the incumbent operators and requiring minimal capitals. Therefore, focus should be given to promoting these mobile entrepreneurs in order to change Thailand from a ‘consumer' to a ‘producer' of ICT technologies. This paper reviews recent trends on mobile technology in the mobile ecosystem and mobile application market. It then identifies emerging opportunity for business entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the measures being implemented by Mobile Technology for Thailand ( $$\text{ MT}^{2})$$ , an alliance from government, business and education sectors for promotion of mobile application industry, are explained. Specifically, it consists of human resource development, entrepreneur incubation and marketing support. It is expected that by focusing on inspiring a new generation of mobile application developers into entrepreneurship, incubating them into successful business and promoting their mobile app to the world market, Thailand could become a regional hub for mobile application industry in the near future. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Mobile application nationallicence Mobile devices nationallicence Entrepreneurship nationallicence Industry promotion nationallicence Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 69/3(2013-04-01), 1025-1031 0929-6212 69:3<1025 2013 69 11277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1062-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1062-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tiarawut Supot Chulalongkorn University, 10500, Bangkok, Thailand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 69/3(2013-04-01), 1025-1031 0929-6212 69:3<1025 2013 69 11277 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer