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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Radical innovations"”.
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Make-buy decisions in the face of radical innovations.
… to analyze make-buy decisions in the face of radical innovations is not yet complete. Accordingly, this thesis builds upon prior work on make-buy decisions and disruptive technologies, and constructs two new hypotheses by introducing evidence from research in the areas of (1) supplier …
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Giving voice to ideas : the role description plays in the diffusion of radical innovations
… knowledge utilization" literature is that simple innovations. those compatible with the existing practices in a field. are spread more easily than those which challenge standard practice. Yet it is the more radical innovations that hold special promise for advancing the practice of a field. Using …
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Discover. Develop. Deliver: An investigation of innovation processes and systems within New Zealand's red meat industry
… curriculum) in the innovation space. Incremental innovations were found to be the primary output of the Silver Fern Farms’ stage-gate innovation process. Meanwhile, the Food Design Institute’s design thinking innovation process leads to more creative and radical innovations. Maintaining a …
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Product innovation as a static game of incomplete information in a non-Bayesian environment
… apparent failure of incumbent firms to produce radical innovations is one that continues to provoke significant debate in the economic literature. This phenomenon, termed the "Incumbent's Curse" by Chandy and Tellis (2000, p.2) receives significant support. Rosenbloom and Christensen (1994, …
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Reconciling Discontinuities and Disruptions: The Construction of an Integrated Typology
<p>Radical innovations are often characterized by a rapid shift from one dominant design to another. The theories of discontinuous and disruptive innovation present two important and independent explanations for why these shifts occur. This research tests the usefulness of combining these two …
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Measuring Learning on the Job
… that are found to be associated with more radical innovations. Within firms, more actively learning employees work on more projects and start reviewing others' code sooner. The results are consistent with channels of firm-employee matching and job security at incumbent firms. They …
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Exploratory and Exploitative Alliances for New Product Innovations: The Alignment of Resource Integration and Governance Structures
… which the contract terms facilitate or hinder radical and incremental innovations resulting from exploratory and exploitative alliances. For exploratory alliances, the alignment of contact terms in a way that provides a compromise between the need for coordination and the need for search …
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Exploration of disruptive technologies for low cost RFID manufacturing
… and identifying avenues for technological innovations to reduce the cost of manufacturing RFID tags below the $0.05 price point. The Auto-ID center at MIT has been the central coordinating body with participation from 5 universities and over 100 industry partners. The primary focus of these …
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Organising for innovation. A case study of innovation teams and team leadership in a large, R&D intensive firm
… of established companies acknowledge that radical innovation, in particular, is critical to their growth and renewal (Leifer et al, 2000). This is especially true for the research and development sector (Eisenbeiß and Boerner, 2010). New product development, while not the only form of …
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Essays on Building Growth From Ideas
… first chapter focuses on the allocation of the innovations themselves, considering the optimal allocation of ideas across firms, and how it can be achieved via a market for ideas. This is done by first creating an operational measure of technological propinquity between firms and inventions. …
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The Role of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the implementation of Rainwater Harvesting Technologies and Strategies (RwHTS)
Sustainable innovations are observed as a major way by which the ill-effects of the built environment can be avoided or offset. The adoption of innovations are critical to the society, as they pave the way for further incremental or radical innovations, depending on the feedback from their users. …
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory : A Definition of Woman by Julia Ward Howe
… cornerstones of virtue in society. But Mrs. Howe radically changed the conventional theory of women; she moved mothers from the home into the community. If women are the repositories of virtue, then they have a solemn duty to work in society for the moral uplift of humanity. Furthermore, if women …