How Radical is a Radical Innovation? An Outline for a Computational Approach

How radical is a radical innovation? An outline for a computational approach

Radical innovations prompt significant subsequent technological development and exhibit novelty and "architectural" innovation, i.e. rearranging the way design elements are put together in a system. Thus, radical innovations often serve as the foundation for new technological systems, industries or domains and are seen to involve significant conceptual breakthroughs, through either luck or geni...

What makes an Innovation Radical? Finding the "radicalness" in radical innovation adoption

This study explores the factors that contribute towards the perception of an innovation as radical by its adopters. This paper addresses an important conceptual gap in the innovation literature by identifying the attributes which make an innovation radical. Prior conceptualizations of radicalness have been useful but incomplete and have often assumed that term “radicalness of an innovation” is ...

Sparing radical cystectomy - How much is enough?

Radical cystectomy in females is increasingly being followed by orthotopic urinary diversion. This is particularly true when it comes to young patients. Wisahi et al. [1] from Egypt describe a small series of such patients with Bilharziosis associated bladder cancer. The results presented match well with those presented in other series [2, 3, 4]. Nerve-sparing radical cystectomy has been shown ...

Radical Innovation in Strategic Partnerships: A Framework for Analysis

Learning from users for radical innovation

In today’s environment of rapid technological change companies can not rely on incremental innovations alone. To sustain long-term competitiveness companies need to develop radical innovations as well. Such innovations typically incorporate new and highly complex technologies, create new markets or shift existing market structures, and require user learning as they often induce significant beha...