Read the summary and the most important questions on IOE 2020-2021 term one

• 1 Week 1: The innovation environment

• 1.1 Technological discontinuities and organizational environments

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• What do technological factors shape?

  Appropriate organizational forms (McKelvey, 1982)

• What do fundamental technological change effects?

  Affects the rise and fall of populations within organizational communities.

• What does basic technological innovation affects?

  Affected semiconductor firms as well as computer and automotive firms.

• What is the article of Thusman and Anderson (1986) about?

  Technology as a central force

• What is the dominant design?

  Reflects the emergence of product-class standards and ends the period of technological ferment. It's the design that has come that is creating a new design for the entire industry (iPhone).

• What are the reasons why discontinuity is a thing?

  - Offer sharp price-performance improvements over  existing technologies
  - When a major technological innovation is representing technical advance so significant that no increase in scale, efficiency, or design can make the older technologies competitive with the new technologies.

• 2 Week 2: Organizing for radical and incremental innovation

• 2.1 Hargadon A (2003) recombinant innovation and the sources of innovation

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• What is Hardagon (2003) article about?

  Advantages that a strategy of technology brokering provides established organizations and entrepreneurs alike in the pursuit of innovation

• There are two central ideas about the innovation process, what are these two and explain?

  1. Technologies are formed of tightly coupled arrangements of people, ideas, and objects
  2. Innovation is a process of taking apart and reassembling these elements in new combinations

• How are innovations mostly described (3 sorts of description)?

  - Radical vs incremental
  - Revolutionary vs evolutionary
  - Discontinuous vs continuous

• What is mass production a recombination of?

  - Interchangeable parts
  - Continuous-flow production
  - Assembly line production