Although technological change is widely credited as driving the last 200 years of economic growth, its role in shaping patterns inequality remains under-explored. Drawing parallels across two industrial revolutions United States, this paper provides new evidence a relationship between highly disruptive forms innovation and spatial inequality. Using universe patents granted 1920 2010 by US Paten...

C hristensen’s (1997) thesis of disruptive technology has been highly praised and popular with managers. Two of its premises are important and insightful. These deal with the performance path of a disruptive technology and its impact on dominant incumbents who ignore it in favor of listening to their current consumers. However, Christensen’s thesis also suffers from limitations, two of which ar...

Steel industry is one of the leading industries in the world. Today it is also one of the fundamental and strategic industries of the world. Per capita production and consumption amount of steel are used as a criterion for evaluation of country development. Furthermore, attention to technological innovations is assumed so much crucial to access the international markets of steel industrie...

A desirable goal of engineering education is to teach students how to be creative and innovative. However, the speed of technological innovation and the continual expansion of disciplinary knowledge leave little time in the curriculum for students to formally study innovation. At West Point we have developed a novel upper-division undergraduate course that develops the critical thinking, creati...

In this paper we use the implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) in various sectors of the healthcare industry as an illustration and application of how academics and managers may assess the potential for new technologies to be sustaining or disruptive to an organization. We review RFID technology, summarize literature related to disruptive innovation, develop a qualitative fram...