Assessing future opportunities and threats is a serious management concern. All we know about the future is that it will very likely pose new and different challenges. Hence, the basic resources which serve a business today may have little relevance under tomorrow's conditions. If a business is to survive, it must be prepared to adapt rapidly to the requirements of the future. Difficulty arises...

Building on the existing literature on evolutionary innovation and technological change, this paper aims to identify potential signals of technological discontinuities and to obtain assessments of experts to what extent these signals help them to predict discontinuities. Furthermore, we analyze whether internal experts (experts employed with firms) and external experts (e.g., consultants) diffe...

The technologies developed by Apple have led the technological innovations in the world. So many studies on the technology analysis of Apple were performed in diverse fields of academic and business. In addition, the research results of Apple technology analysis using the quantitative methods such as statistics and machine learning algorithms were performed. They were the objective approaches t...

We propose a new conceptual model for understanding technological evolution that highlights dynamic and highly interdependent relationships among multiple technologies. We propose that, when technology evolution is discussed, a single technology cannot be considered in isolation. Instead, we argue that technology evolution is best viewed as a dynamic system that includes the totality of interre...