REACHING THE NEXT GENERATION OF TECHNOLOGY: BENCHMARKING "OUTSIDE THE SECTOR" IN R&D

Robin Hirsch
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Robin Hirsch: Senior Associate, Railway Technology Strategy Centre, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2BU, UK;

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2000, vol. 04, issue 02, 207-228

Abstract: Starting from an applied research study on behalf of British Rail, this article then describes how multi-sector trend analysis can help to anticipate change in any industry and in searching for paradigms to assist in looking "outside the box" of one's own sector's progress in R&D. It points to the importance of choosing sectors with longer and steeper learning curves, suggests how to identify such sectors, and the degree to which cross-sector lessons may be applicable. It describes certain general trends in R&D, and an implication of the increasing speed in disseminating ideas, especially with the growth of the Internet.

Keywords: learning curve; competition; globalisation; cross-sector; R&D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1142/S1363919600000147

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