# using [[update(🧬process, 📜product)]],
Below are **emoji‑tagged versions** of each summary level.
The coloured squares map every sentence to its eight‑module framework exactly as you specified earlier:
|colour|module|meaning (NAIL → SCALE → SAIL roles)|
|---|---|---|
|🟪|**M1** S1‑2, S23‑24|Context & dynamic challenge|
|🟩|**M2** S3‑4‑17‑18‑25‑26|Capability need & payoff|
|🟧|**M3/M4/M7 core**|Methods, architecture, extensions|
|🟦|**M2/M7 validation**|Links & empirical grounding|
|🟥|**M3 & M8 vision**|Key principle & future platform|
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### 32‑Sentence version (full SAIL granularity)
🟪 **1** Start‑ups that rely on complementary technologies must integrate their offerings with partners whose cost trajectories are highly uncertain.
🟪 **2** This uncertainty makes the market‑entry problem uniquely complex for new ventures.
🟩 **3** Entrepreneurship research usually recommends focused strategies because founders face budget and cognitive limits.
🟩 **4** Product‑development studies, however, argue for diversified investment across complements to hedge technological risk.
🟧 **5** To reconcile this conflict, the authors model the entry decision of a storage start‑up that must pair with one or more renewable‑energy technologies.
🟧 **6** They employ a system‑dynamics simulation centred on an energy‑storage firm integrating with wind (RA) or solar (RB) power.
🟦 **7** Two choices are pivotal: total integration spending and how that spending is split between complements.
🟦 **8** The model embeds learning‑curve cost reductions for storage and renewables plus competition from mature gas turbines.
🟥 **9** A causal‑loop diagram reveals reinforcing integration–learning feedbacks and balancing price–demand loops.
🟥 **10** Baseline runs show storage costs falling steadily while gas prices fluctuate.
🟧 **11** Consequently demand migrates from gas‑bundled renewables to storage‑bundled renewables over time.
🟧 **12** Integration investment substantially lifts the start‑up’s net present value (NPV).
🟧 **13** Directing all investment to a single complement (“focused” strategy) dominates a 50/50 split in the base case.
🟧 **S14** Focus still wins when the two complements are ex‑ante identical, because feedback loops amplify concentrated learning.
🟧 **S15** Monte‑Carlo experiments vary learning‑curve slopes and gas prices to inject risk.
🟧 **S16** Across 1,000 runs, an aggressive focused strategy yields the highest expected NPV.
🟩 **S17** Yet the no‑investment strategy minimizes bankruptcy probability, exposing a safety–return trade‑off.
🟩 **S18** Balanced strategies occasionally lead in market share, revealing potential objective conflicts.
🟩 **S19** Sensitivity tests vary market growth, integration cost, spillovers, and externality strength.
🟩 **S20** Greater externalities, higher uncertainty, or tighter time horizons strengthen the case for focus and aggressiveness.
🟩 **S21** Rising integration cost reduces the payoff to aggressiveness but leaves the focus advantage largely intact.
🟩 **S22** High spillover between complements erodes the benefit of focusing.
🟪 **S23** Longer horizons or larger equity injections can shift advantage toward balanced investment for share expansion.
🟪 **S24** Managerially, start‑ups should initially pick the most promising complement and invest deeply.
🟩 **S25** For storage firms that usually means wind integration before solar.
🟩 **S26** Policymakers may need incentives to prevent underinvestment in lagging complements such as solar.
🟧 **S27** The study bridges entrepreneurship and flexible design literatures by locating the mechanism in nonlinear learning externalities.
🟧 **S28** Its central insight is that concentrated learning loops outweigh portfolio hedging under typical start‑up constraints.
🟦 **S29** Limitations include a stylised model, single mature competitor, and industry‑specific parameters.
🟦 **S30** Nevertheless robustness checks suggest wide applicability.
🟥 **S31** Future work should examine industries without mature incumbents and alternative founder utility functions.
🟥 **S32** Overall, focused integration spending typically maximises start‑up value under technological uncertainty.
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### 16‑Sentence version (SCALE granularity)
🟪 **1** Start‑ups integrating with uncertain complements confront severe strategic ambiguity.
🟩 **2** Entrepreneurship urges focus while design research urges diversification, creating a theoretical rift.
🟧 **3** The authors build a system‑dynamics model of an energy‑storage entrant pairing with wind or solar to explore the issue.
🟦 **4** Investment level and allocation drive learning‑curve cost dynamics against a gas benchmark.
🟥 **5** Reinforcing feedback loops dominate system behaviour and baseline runs show declining storage costs.
🟧 **6** Integration spending lifts NPV markedly.
🟧 **7** Focusing all funds on one complement beats splitting funds, even under symmetry.
🟧 **8** Monte‑Carlo analysis confirms aggressive focus maximises expected returns.
🟩 **9** Conversely, zero‑investment best preserves solvency while balanced approaches can win on share.
🟩 **10** Robustness checks across growth, cost, and externality parameters keep the focus result intact.
🟩 **11** Higher integration cost mainly tempers aggressiveness, not focus.
🟪 **12** Spillovers and abundant capital lessen the focus premium.
🟩 **13** Managers should specialise early—e.g., wind before solar—and governments may counterbalance neglected paths.
🟧 **14** The study bridges entrepreneurship and flexible design by highlighting nonlinear learning externalities.
🟦 **15** Limitations include stylised parameters, yet robustness suggests broad relevance.
🟥 **16** Hence focus under uncertainty remains the dominant start‑up strategy.
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### 8‑Sentence version (NAIL → SCALE bridge)
🟪 **U1** Complement‑dependent start‑ups face high uncertainty over which technologies to integrate with.
🟩 **U2** Conflicting scholarly advice on focus versus diversification motivates this study.
🟧 **U3** A system‑dynamics model embeds learning curves and gas competition to examine the issue.
🟦 **U4** Reinforcing integration–learning loops drive falling storage costs and rising demand.
🟥 **U5** Focused integration spending outruns balanced spending on NPV, even when complements look identical.
🟧 **U6** Monte‑Carlo trials show aggressive focus wins on returns, while no spending minimises bankruptcy.
🟩 **U7** Sensitivity tests uphold the focus edge except under high spillover or abundant capital.
🟥 **U8** Early specialisation is advised, with policy incentives to offset inevitable underinvestment in the ignored complement.
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### 4‑Sentence elevator‑pitch version
🟪 **V1** Start‑ups integrating with fast‑evolving complementary technologies face strategic uncertainty and competing doctrines on whether to focus or diversify.
🟧 **V2** A system‑dynamics simulation links integration spending with learning‑curve feedbacks that reshape costs and demand.
🟥 **V3** Across deterministic and stochastic scenarios, aggressive focus maximises expected NPV, whereas conservative spending best protects against insolvency.
🟥 **V4** Except when spillovers are large, this robustness suggests founders should specialise early while policymakers balance neglected technologies.