TY - GEN
T1 - Discontinuous innovation and the defense innovation cycle
AU - Harrison, Adam Jay
AU - Rao, Bharat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, Inc. (PICMET).
PY - 2018/10/4
Y1 - 2018/10/4
N2 - This paper extends the concept of transilience mapping developed by Abernathy and Clark (1984) to model the cycle of innovation in the United States Department of Defense (DOD). Here, transilience is defined as the capacity of an innovation to influence the established technological paradigm in the DOD, which includes both the accepted methods of value creation and the resulting dominant designs. Examples of reinforcing and disruptive innovation in the DOD are mapped to the four modes of innovation (i.e., niche, architectural, regular, and revolutionary), and the concept of a defense innovation cycle based on the emergence of new dominant designs is introduced. The analysis shows that the relationship between technological innovations and dominant designs over time is associated with the extent to which new innovations are either consistent or inconsistent with the technological paradigm.
AB - This paper extends the concept of transilience mapping developed by Abernathy and Clark (1984) to model the cycle of innovation in the United States Department of Defense (DOD). Here, transilience is defined as the capacity of an innovation to influence the established technological paradigm in the DOD, which includes both the accepted methods of value creation and the resulting dominant designs. Examples of reinforcing and disruptive innovation in the DOD are mapped to the four modes of innovation (i.e., niche, architectural, regular, and revolutionary), and the concept of a defense innovation cycle based on the emergence of new dominant designs is introduced. The analysis shows that the relationship between technological innovations and dominant designs over time is associated with the extent to which new innovations are either consistent or inconsistent with the technological paradigm.
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U2 - 10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481891
DO - 10.23919/PICMET.2018.8481891
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056445188
T3 - PICMET 2018 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology: Managing Technological Entrepreneurship: The Engine for Economic Growth, Proceedings
BT - PICMET 2018 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology
A2 - Steenhuis, Harm-Jan
A2 - Niwa, Kiyoshi
A2 - Perman, Gary
A2 - Kocaoglu, Dundar F.
A2 - Anderson, Timothy R.
A2 - Kozanoglu, Dilek Cetindamar
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2018
Y2 - 19 August 2018 through 23 August 2018
ER -