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
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

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

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Product innovations are more visible than process innovations.

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An innovation can be competence enhancing to one firm,while competence destroying for another.

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A modular innovation significantly affects the overall configuration of a system.

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For a firm to adopt a component innovation,it typically requires that the firm have architectural knowledge about the way components link and integrate to form a whole system.

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S-curves in technology performance and s-curves in technology diffusion are fundamentally different processes.

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When a technology's performance is plotted against the amount of effort and money invested in the technology,it typically shows slow initial improvement,then accelerated improvement,then diminishing improvement.

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In the context of s-curves in technological improvement,performance improvement in the early stages of a technology is rapid.

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In the context of s-curves in technological improvement,as a technology begins to reach its inherent limits,the cost of each marginal improvement decreases.

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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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Technology diffusion curve is s-shaped because adoption is initially fast when a new technology is introduced to the market.

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Technology diffusion and information diffusion take the same amount of time.

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S-curves of technology diffusion are in part a function of the s-curves in technology improvement.

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Firms cannot influence the shape of the s-curve through their development activities.

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It is possible for a firm that follows an s-curve model too closely to end up switching technologies later than it should.

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Among the various adopter categories,innovators have the greatest potential for opinion leadership.

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The last 16 percent of the individuals in a social system to adopt an innovation are termed as late majority.

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According to the Utterback and Abernathy model,firms in the fluid phase avoid experimenting with different form factors or product features.

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According to Anderson and Tushman,in the era of ferment,firms focus on efficiency and market penetration.

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According to Anderson and Tushman,in the era of incremental change,most competition revolves around improving components rather than altering the architecture.

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