The Innovator's Dilemma

Christensen, Clayton M.

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“…That is not to say that innovation does not continue to be an interactive process between user and producer, rather it recognises that innovation studies in the past, perhaps echoing aspects of the, practice of innovative businesses, has been overly 'productivist.' That is, during the years of excess firms competed on the basis of disruptive innovation (Christensen, 1997). Thus the greatest novelty was the prize that competitors in ICT, from personal computers (PCs) to software, DVD and BluRay, iPod, iPhone and BlackBerry have sought in their quest to dominate markets.…”

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Transition Regions: Green Innovation and Economic Development

Cooke

2013

Advances in Spatial Science

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This paper has three main aims. The first of these is to discuss and critique the main spatial and non-spatial theories that address methods by which societies may transition from a hydrocarbon to a post-hydrocarbon technological regime. It is argued that the first approach, which combines urban regime theory of politics with ecological modernization theory, is ultimately contradictory and rooted in an inadequate sustainability discourse. The second approach is more interesting, not least because it adopts an evolutionary rather than a conflict perspective. It allows the strategist to progress from the potential of building a green market niche that includes the urban governance stimulus but is not limited by it. Then it facilitates thinking about how such niches may coalesce to form an intervening green technological paradigm Schumpeter-style. Finally, it opens out a co-evolutionary process by which all social, political and economic sub-systems become synchronised long-term into a post-hydrocarbon socio-technical landscape of a kind that would mitigate anthropogenic global warming. Its weakness is a lack of spatial sensibility regarding how this process would work, an underdeveloped notion of the role of governance in niche, regime and landscape co-evolution, and an inadequate appreciation of how innovation operates in facilitating these processes. To overcome this we propose the theoretical and practical concept of Transition Regions. Second, the paper seeks to demonstrate how a more theoretically informed framework based in regional innovation systems thinking, allied to evolutionary economic geography JEL -codes: L, -, - Transition regions: green innovation and economic development Philip CookeCentre for Advanced Studies, Cardiff University, Wales (UK) Abstract This paper has three main aims. The first of these is to discuss and critique the main spatial and non-spatial theories that address methods by which societies may transition from a hydrocarbon to a post-hydrocarbon technological paradigm. It is argued that the first approach, which combines urban regime theory of politics with ecological modernization theory, is ultimately contradictory and rooted in an inadequate 'sustainability' discourse. The second approach is more interesting, not least because it adopts an evolutionary rather than a conflict perspective, it visualises the problem as 'climate change' rather than 'sustainability' and it conceptualises change beyond the level of mere technological regimes of a Schumpeterian kind. To overcome problems with both main approaches we propose the theoretical and practical concept of Transition Regions. Second, the paper seeks to demonstrate how a more theoretically informed framework based in regional innovation systems thinking, allied to evolutionary economic geography and development analysis produces a superior transition model. This is particularly in reference to its basic idea of economic development caused by interactions between elements in regional economies displaying related varie...

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confidence: 99%

Transition Regions: Green Innovation and Economic Development

Cooke

2013

Advances in Spatial Science

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“…The terms "disruptive innovation" (Christensen 1997), "breakthrough" (Stefik and Stefik 2004) and "radical innovation" (Garcia and Calantone 2002) have been used to define when something novel is created to an unrecognized demand. They represent the discontinuities of both the market and technological practices (Garcia and Calantone 2002;Gurtner and Reinhardt 2016).…”

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“…Technological changes can be sustained, and they are characterized by providing new features, new benefits or improvements in already existing technology, the latter being called incremental innovations (Christensen 1997;Garcia and Calantone 2002;Gurtner and Reinhardt 2016). On the other hand, disruptive technological changes are characterized by new technologies that offer a different package of attributes that will characterize a new market (Christensen 1997).…”

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Paths and Challenges of New Technologies: The Case of Nanotechnology-Based Cosmetics Development in Brazil

Barbieux¹,

Padula²

2018

Administrative Sciences

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New technologies have challenges to overcome when applying it to new products. New products depend on the technological and market novelties. Therefore, the term product innovativeness is defined as the technological and market degree of novelty. For several industries, the nanotechnology has been the latest technology, and it has also been included in Brazilian government strategic agenda. Considering the importance of new technologies and innovation, we describe the paths and challenges of nanotechnology-based cosmetics development to achieve product innovativeness. Opposing the new product development (NPD) mainstream based on efficiency, we used the evolutionary approach by highlighting the novelties. We describe three NPD stages (conception, operationalization, nd launch). For empirical evidence, we chose two Brazilian emblematic cases (suppliers for cosmetics industry) that domain nanotechnology. One case scans more potential market novelties and consequently produces indigenous nanotechnology for international industries such as cosmetics, food, and textile. The second case represents the new technology limited by the application in cosmetics. New technologies are not an innovation guarantee. Market demands must be identified in the early stage of NPD. When the focus is the novelty, the NPD evolutionary approach is useful.

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“…This implies the strengthening of production innovative nature and the strengthening of scientific and educational activities, the development of a special innovation sphere with its specific features and subjects. Interest in innovation is great because without the use of innovations it is practically impossible to create competitive products in any industry nowadays, especially to "create" a competitive expert in the university environment (Kirnen, 2004;Christensen, 2004;Christiansen, 2000).…”

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Determinants of Regional University Development in Modern Russia

Bachiev¹,

Markaryan²,

Pashtaev³

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TAKSAD

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The article describes the determinants that are manifested in regional social-economic complexes and determine the main trends of development and educational activities for regional universities. The authors determined and characterized such determinants as social-economic (or financial, and infrastructural) uneven development of Russia; the economic mechanism of higher education economic accessibility stratification; the need to equalize the professional educational network in the regions of Russia to ensure the development of the intellectual and professional potential of regions and the gradual equalization of Russia economic development in terms of regional and geographical dimensions; the degree of "openness-closure" concerning a regional university and the development of understanding that a university is a system by its structural and functional organization and, consequently, the subject to the laws of social, ethnic, state and regional morphology of education; an ambiguous (often negative or neutral) attitude of teachers and organizers of higher education to innovations, which creates the contradictions and extends the periods of crisis processes in the educational system of a regional university.

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The Innovator's Dilemma

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Transition Regions: Green Innovation and Economic Development

Transition Regions: Green Innovation and Economic Development

Paths and Challenges of New Technologies: The Case of Nanotechnology-Based Cosmetics Development in Brazil

Determinants of Regional University Development in Modern Russia

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