文档介绍：How Incremental Innovation es Disruptive:
The Case of Technology Convergence
F. Hacklin', V. Raurich', C. Marxt'
'Chair for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Abstroct4urrent innovation management literature given in figure 1. The technology s-curve is a
and research statically differentiates between incremental visualization showing the progress of technology
and disruptive innovation. Incremental innovation is performance in respect to the R&D-effort and expenses.
prehended as improvement of technology Three typical technology phases can be identified on the
performance or product feature enhancement, whereas chart.
disruptive innovation is defined as based on technologies
In the first phase, the technology is called a
previously new to the world, combined with their effects on
markets. The authors of this research present how a 'pacemaker technology' meaning that it is new to the
convergence of several well-known, incrementally world and the future potential is clearly identified. Despite
developing technologies can result in innovations with highly this, according to the s-curve model, R&D investments
disruptive character. can only slowly he transformed into performance gains. In
Paradoxically, in disruptive situations, operative actions this phase th