Types And Patterns Of Innovation

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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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The path a technology follows through time is termed its technology map.

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Product innovation can enable process innovation.

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The radicalness of an innovation is absolute.

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Radical innovation entails changing the overall design of the system or the way that components interact with each other.

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In order to initiate a component innovation,a firm requires knowledge about the way components link and integrate to form the whole system.

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A technology's S-curve of performance improvement is unrelated to its S-curve of diffusion.

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The S-curve in technological improvement is a plot of performance against effort and money invested in that technology.

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Until a new technology has established a degree of legitimacy,it may be difficult to attract other researchers to participate in its development.

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Technologies always get the opportunity to reach their performance limits before being replaced by a new technology.

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"Moore's Law" refers to the rapidly increasing density of transistors on integrated circuits that enabled microprocessor performance to increase dramatically.This increase in density is expected to always continue at the same rate.

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To develop the technology diffusion s- curve,you need to plot the cumulative number of adopters of the technology against time.

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The adoption of new technology and the diffusion of information about it takes place at the same rate.

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Managers can almost always use the S-curve model to effectively plan their technology investment decisions.

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A firm can influence the shape of the S-curve by revamping the architecture design of the technology.

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Innovators represent the largest category of adopters according to research.

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Many companies are now coming up with better ways to make personal data assistants (PDAs)perform their functions better.This is the specific phase of the technological cycle according to Utterback and Abernathy.

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When personal data assistants (PDAs)were first introduced there was a time when there was great uncertainty about this technology and its market.This is called the fluid phase of the technological cycle according to Utterback and Abernathy.

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The first phase in the technology cycle is involves incremental improvements until one company finds a major breakthrough.

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In the era of ferment,firms focus on efficiency and market penetration.

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As a firm's expertise becomes oriented around maximizing its ability to compete in the existing dominant design,it can become a barrier to the firm's recognizing and reacting to a new technology architecture.

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