Critical perspectives on disruptive innovation and energy transformation

Innovation Systems Perspectives on Developing-Country Agriculture: A Critical Review

Innovation systems perspectives on agricultural research and technological change are fast becoming a popular approach to the study of how society generates, disseminates, and utilizes knowledge. The innovation systems literature represents a significant change from the conventional, linear approach to research and development by providing an analytical framework that explores complex relations...

Disruptive Innovation and Transformation of the Drug Discovery and Development Enterprise

RFID as a Disruptive Innovation

The first part of the paper discusses Wal-Mart’s adoption of RFID through the theoretical lens of the Resources, Processes, and Values (RPV) innovation theory. This part makes a theoretical argument that WalMart adopted RFID as a sustaining innovation – an incremental improvement in supply chain identification technology. The second part reviews a representative sample of IS literature in order...

Disruptive innovation for social change.

Countries, organizations, and individuals around the globe spend aggressively to solve social problems, but these efforts often fail to deliver. Misdirected investment is the primary reason for that failure. Most of the money earmarked for social initiatives goes to organizations that are structured to support specific groups of recipients, often with sophisticated solutions. Such organizations...

Disruptive Innovation in Laboratory Medicine.

Over the last 5 decades, laboratory medicine has witnessed a remarkable wave of innovations that transformed the field from a peripheral to a central player in healthcare delivery. These advances enabled the introduction and performance of new tests on a large scale, some in a decentralized setting, in an accurate and a precise manner, thus leading to better diagnosis, more accurate prediction ...