Standards Battles And Design Dominance

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Introduction
Sources of Innovation
Types and Patterns of Innovation
Standards Battles and Design Dominance
Timing of Entry Part Two Formulating Technological Innovation Strategy
Defining the Organizations Strategic Direction
Choosing Innovation Projects
Collaboration Strategies
Protecting Innovation
Organizing for Innovation
Managing the New Product Development Process
Managing New Product Development Teams
Crafting a Deployment Strategy Index

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When a dominant design is established in an industry,manufacturers tend to turn their focus to improving efficiency.

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The learning curve indicates that the more units a company produces of an item,the more each unit will cost.

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A firm that develops a new technology ahead of its rivals may have an advantage in staying ahead of others.

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The ability of an organization to recognize,assimilate,and utilize new knowledge is referred to as its learning curve.

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Network externalities cannot arise in markets that do not have physical networks.

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Disetronic dominates the market for insulin pumps for diabetics.The more physicians prescribe it for patients,the more complementary goods are made for it.This is an example of "network externalities."

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Due to network externalities,the benefit from using eBay to buy and sell goods decreases with the number of users of eBay.

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Government regulation can make a technology the dominant design.

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The fact that there are many companies supplying high quality and inexpensive ink refill kits for inkjet printers raises the value of the inkjet printer.

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There are never any advantages to a government mandated dominant design of technology.

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In some industries,multiple competing technologies can coexist peacefully while in others there will be strong pressures for only one technology to succeed.

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A dominant design does not influence the problem-solving techniques used in the industry.

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Firms that develop technologically superior products are usually winners.

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The "Buyer Utility Map" developed by Kim and Mauborgne can be applied only to consumer products.

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If a new innovation has a significant advantage in functionality,its overall value will be greater than the incumbent standard.

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When comparing the value of a new technology to an existing technology,the tendency is to focus mainly on objective information.

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The value of a good to a user increases in a linear fashion.

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Monopoly costs take the form of an s-shape.

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The steepness of the monopoly cost curve is largely a function of government regulations.

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By choosing not to exercise its monopoly power,a firm can flatten its monopoly costs curve.

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