Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
An 1880 penny-farthing (left), and a 1886 Rover safety bicycle with gearing. In business theory, disruptive innovation is innovation that creates a new market and value network or enters at the bottom of an existing market and eventually displaces established market-leading firms, products, and alliances. [1]
Thomas Edison with phonograph in the late 1870s. Edison was one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name.. Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. [1]
Professor Clayton Christensen has defined "disruptive innovation", and by extension disruption, in a different way. For him, disruption is the process of newcomers penetrating at the low end of a market and then moving up the value chain. Jean-Marie Dru has always promoted a broader definition and practical business applications.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The term disruptive technologies was first described in depth with this book by Christensen; but the term was later changed to disruptive innovation in a later book (The Innovator's Solution). A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network that will eventually disrupt an already existing market and replace ...
Emerging technology Status Potential applications Related articles Active structure: Research, development, commercialization Adaptive structures that respond to different conditions, or supermassive buildings and infrastructure (e.g. space fountains)
As capital cannot abide a limit to profitability, ever more frantic forms of "time-space compression" [46] (increased speed of turnover, innovation of ever faster transport and communications' infrastructure, "flexible accumulation" [47]) ensue, often impelling technological innovation. Such innovation, however, is a double-edged sword:
In the history of technology, emerging technologies [3] [4] are contemporary advances and innovation in various fields of technology. Over centuries innovative methods and new technologies have been developed and opened up. Some of these technologies are due to theoretical research, and others from commercial research and development.