The changing technology landscape is putting pressure on firms to adapt innovative product strategies. The life cycle of a particular technology lasts merely a few months - this is particularly applicable to the communication sector.
How do we measure this technology evolution or disruption in technology?
Hello,
In Poland (catching up country) for over 10 years we provide questionary research in national and regional innovation systems. We use an evolutionary approach. You can accept two different ways to research technology evolution - in time and in space. The first one consist on repeating research in the same region or industry after 5-6 years (minimum). Systems evolve slowly. The second one, is to compare in the same time several regions or industries with a different economic development. You will see, that there are differences beetwen them and not only from unique perspective, but also from evolution point of view. This researches should be provided in the same country, because there are many systems differences between regions and industries among countries.
I attached a link to two of my researches published in english - space compariton.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261702047_Endogenous_or_Exogenous_Innovation_Development_in_Industry_on_Regional_Level
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259921188_Size_and_equity_own_of_enterprises_for_innovation_activity_in_regional_industrial_systems_-_evolutionary_approach_%28probiting_modeling%29
Other ones are unfortunately published only in polish.
I hope it will be usefull.
Greetings,
Arkadiusz Swiadek
University in Zielona Gora (Poland)
Department of Innovation and Enterpreneurship
Article Endogenous or Exogenous Innovation Development in Industry o...
Article Size and equity own of enterprises for innovation activity i...
Thank you, Mr. Arkadiusz. Your articles are very informative
I was looking for the instrument to measure intensity of technology disruption on compaies which are into high tech sector. Disruption in the external environment caused by technology changes/evolution/discontinuity etc are creating internal imbalance in companies which in turn are pushing companies into a rugged landscape.
Theory about technolgy trajectories and technolgy path in high-tech You can find in paper:
PÄIVI OINAS, EDWARD J. MALECKI: THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES IN TIME AND SPACE: FROM NATIONAL AND REGIONAL TO SPATIAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS, INTERNATIONAL REGIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW 25, 1: 102–131 (January 2002).
It won't resolve all Yours problems, but I'm thinking, it's good starting point for You. Hope it will be helpfull.
Greetings,
Arkadiusz Swiadek
My personal experience of innovation is that much of the difficulty of being innovative is to identify a problem that has to be solved. I count myself lucky to have made four major inventions 'tho I've never regarded myself as imaginative. The first was RIA and its correct theoretical basis; the second was the cause of neurological cretinism; the third was direct free T4 assay, and the fourth was microarray technology. The last of these was valued by an independent US financial journal as creating a $40 billion market though I doubt this and in case I have rejected any financial interest in the invention. Solving the problems to meet the scientific needs these represented was not overly difficult. But I suspect the technologies involved will last for a long time.