HIGH TECHNOLOGY AND BARRIERS TO INNOVATION: FROM GLOBALIZATION TO RELOCALIZATION

Milan Zeleny ()
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Milan Zeleny: Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, New York City, NY, USA

International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2012, vol. 11, issue 02, 441-456

Abstract: We live in an era when a remarkable number of new information and other technologies are successfully bypassing the main obstacle to technological advance: technology support network (TSN). Technology support net, when fully established and fixed, erects significant barriers to innovation. Innovation is not free and autonomous process of applied creativity, but is technically, economically and politically subservient to the "holders and owners" of the support net. We present operational definitions of technology and high technology which explain past and current barriers to innovation shifts from one technological paradigm to another. The TSN-bypass technologies are causing the process of globalization to slow down and revert itself into a process of relocalization, bringing forth the economy of autonomous, self-reliant and self-sustainable individuals, communities, localities and regions.

Keywords: High technology; technology support net; barriers to innovation; continuous improvement; discontinuous improvement; globalization; glocalization; relocalízation; corso and ricorso; self-service; disintermediation; mass customization; 3D-printing; vertical farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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