Innovation, organization and entrepreneurship
(Reading)
Inhoud
Lecture 2 Introduction: The Innovation Environment............................................................................2
Lecture 3 Organizing for Radical Innovation...........................................................................................3
Lecture 4 Organizing for Incremental Innovation...................................................................................5
Lecture 5 Managing Incremental and Radical Innovations.....................................................................7
Lecture 6 Managing Innovation in Professional Service Firms and Processes of Innovation..................9
Lecture 7 The Learning Organization....................................................................................................14
Lecture 8 Governance of Knowledge Creation: Tight or Loose Control?..............................................17
Lecture 9 Geography of Innovation......................................................................................................21
Lecture 10 Open Innovation.................................................................................................................22
L ecture 11 Industry-University Innovative Collaboration/New Ventures............................................24
Lecture 12 Personnel Mobility, Innovation, and Learning....................................................................26
,Lecture 2 Introduction: The Innovation Environment
Abernathy,W. and Utterback, J. (1978), Patterns of industrial innovation, Technology Review,
June/July, pp. 41-47.
What is a product innovation by a small, technology-based unit is often the process equipment
adopted by a large unit to improve its high-volume production of a standard product.
We argue that these two units, the small, entrepreneurial organization and the larger unit producing
standard products in high volume are at opposite ends of a spectrum.
Two patterns of innovating, the incremental way of improving step by step, designed for
standardized products and motivated by cost reduction and the radical innovation (motivated by
product development)
The stimulus for innovation changes as a unit matures. In the initial fluid stage, market needs are ill-
defined and can be stated only with broad uncertainty; and the relevant technologies are as yet little
explored. So there are two sources of ambiguity about the relevance of any particular program of
research and development. Target uncertainty and technical uncertainty.
Tushman, M. and Anderson, Ph. (1986), Technological discontinuities and organizational
environments, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 31-3, pp. 439-465.
This paper focuses on patterns of technological change and on the impact of technological
breakthroughs on environmental conditions. These breakthroughs, or technological discontinuities,
significantly increase environmental uncertainty and munificence.
Technology seems to evolve in response to the inter-play of history, individuals and market demand.
Change is a function of both variety and chance as well as structure and patterns.
Mayor technological shifts can be classified as competence-destroying or competence-enhancing,
because they either destroy or enhance the competence of existing firms.
, Lecture 3 Organizing for Radical Innovation
Hargadon, A. (2003), Recombinant innovation and the sources of invention. In A. Hargadon, How
breakthroughs happen: the surprising truth about how companies innovate (pp. 31-52).
(Reading)
Inhoud
Lecture 2 Introduction: The Innovation Environment............................................................................2
Lecture 3 Organizing for Radical Innovation...........................................................................................3
Lecture 4 Organizing for Incremental Innovation...................................................................................5
Lecture 5 Managing Incremental and Radical Innovations.....................................................................7
Lecture 6 Managing Innovation in Professional Service Firms and Processes of Innovation..................9
Lecture 7 The Learning Organization....................................................................................................14
Lecture 8 Governance of Knowledge Creation: Tight or Loose Control?..............................................17
Lecture 9 Geography of Innovation......................................................................................................21
Lecture 10 Open Innovation.................................................................................................................22
L ecture 11 Industry-University Innovative Collaboration/New Ventures............................................24
Lecture 12 Personnel Mobility, Innovation, and Learning....................................................................26
,Lecture 2 Introduction: The Innovation Environment
Abernathy,W. and Utterback, J. (1978), Patterns of industrial innovation, Technology Review,
June/July, pp. 41-47.
What is a product innovation by a small, technology-based unit is often the process equipment
adopted by a large unit to improve its high-volume production of a standard product.
We argue that these two units, the small, entrepreneurial organization and the larger unit producing
standard products in high volume are at opposite ends of a spectrum.
Two patterns of innovating, the incremental way of improving step by step, designed for
standardized products and motivated by cost reduction and the radical innovation (motivated by
product development)
The stimulus for innovation changes as a unit matures. In the initial fluid stage, market needs are ill-
defined and can be stated only with broad uncertainty; and the relevant technologies are as yet little
explored. So there are two sources of ambiguity about the relevance of any particular program of
research and development. Target uncertainty and technical uncertainty.
Tushman, M. and Anderson, Ph. (1986), Technological discontinuities and organizational
environments, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 31-3, pp. 439-465.
This paper focuses on patterns of technological change and on the impact of technological
breakthroughs on environmental conditions. These breakthroughs, or technological discontinuities,
significantly increase environmental uncertainty and munificence.
Technology seems to evolve in response to the inter-play of history, individuals and market demand.
Change is a function of both variety and chance as well as structure and patterns.
Mayor technological shifts can be classified as competence-destroying or competence-enhancing,
because they either destroy or enhance the competence of existing firms.
, Lecture 3 Organizing for Radical Innovation
Hargadon, A. (2003), Recombinant innovation and the sources of invention. In A. Hargadon, How
breakthroughs happen: the surprising truth about how companies innovate (pp. 31-52).
