 IntroductionPascal Savioz
Chapter 1 in Technology Intelligence, 2004, pp 1-6 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Anticipating these changes seems to be crucial for success in technology-based companies. Being informed about the company’s technological environment in a time of rapid change is prerequisite to a conscious management of technologies. Cohen and Levinthal (1990: 128) noted that the most innovative firms appear to be those that are best at recognizing the relevance of new, external information, importing and assimilating it, and then applying the information. However, companies are facing more and more problems getting and handling this information because of the increased complexity of the technological environment (Abernathy & Utterback 1978: 40). There are multiple causes and effects of this increasing complexity; to name a few: The phenomenon of technology fusion: The interdisciplinarity of scientific fields is increasing. Thus, a technology cannot be assigned to one specific science. As a consequence, barriers between sciences become blurred: a technology field combines several sciences (for example, the emergence of biotechnology can be interpreted as a triangular connection between food, drugs and medicine, and industrial chemicals). Kodama (1991: 130) introduced the expression ‘technology fusion’ for this phenomenon. Date: 2004 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4821-2_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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