Information Accelerated Radical Innovation From Principles to an Operational Methodology

ABSTRACT

Recognition since the mid 20th hundred that scientific technology is the lock opener driver of economic development and piece of work growth, has sparked increasing collaboration of conduct industry and academia in commercial areas outside the historical focus areas of defense public health and transportation. Notwithstanding, theories and tools to anticipate innovation with certainty are limited primarily to those instances of incremental innovation, for which historical cast analysis provides a sound basis for planning. The capability for real time computation and telecommunication makes rapid unfolding and commercialization of breakthrough innovations imperative for competitive succes in the globally conjoined 21st Century environment. This paper assesses the course of technology from its empirical base in antiquity end the initial scientific technology stage of the 19th and 20th Centuries, to the 21st hundred environment governed increasingly by technologies of thinking. It examines the ne for and benefits from a fresh information technology enabled paradigm of Accelerated Radical Innovation (ARI). by means of combining advanced information and telecommunications technology tools and innovation management techniques in a real-time decision-making environment, the ARI paradigm has the potential to overwhelm technological, organizational and societal challenges and hurdle thereby achieving a factor of 10X improvement in radical innovation effectiveness. Further disentanglement of this proposed new paradigm is envisioned end a collaborative multi-university program of research and teaching, in collaboration with single outed industrial partners to identify methodology variants appropriate for diverse companies and industries. lucky implementation will contribute significantly to the propos activities required for a 21st hundred innovation ecology, envisioned by the National Innovation Initiative report, "Innovate America".

KeyWords:

Accelerated Radical Innovation, Paradigm, Challenges, Hurdle Information Technology

Background and Introduction

From antiquity tacit knowledge and empirical discovery provided the basis for major technology advances, and posterior incremental improvements associated with the maturing of these technologies and their geographical and temporal propagation (Merrifield 1999) The 19th hundred marked the boundary between the ancient world and the late world (Betz 2003) characterized increasingly by dint of the disciplinary influence of science and the research university in defining the underlying principles for a rapidly growing science and technology infrastructure that enables technological innovation based upon scientific technology. The rise of large industrial organizations in the late 19th hundred played a significant role end the formation of major, central research and disclosure laboratories seeking competitive advantage based upon proprietary technology (Fusfeld 1994). During the 20th hundred the size and scope of industrial research grew the two geographically and virtually due to the increasing capability of transportation, communication and computing technologies (Gerybadze 1999)

Recognition since the mid 20th hundred that technology is the lock opener driver of innovation (Schumpeter 1939 Mensch 1982) has stimulated multidisciplinary management of technology (MOT) research dedicated to better understanding and improving industrial innovation [i]or[/i] part of to the other collaborative industryuniversity-government initiatives (Kelly 1978) National Research Council workshops (NRC 1987 NRC 1991) have further stimulated systematic application of mind of the innovation process leading to the recognition of many diverse individual and organizational parts important for success (Fusfeld 1994 Roberts 1987 and 1988 von Hippel 1986 and 1988) Nevertheless, the complexities inherent to innovation have hindered the unravelling of qualitative and quantitative types for forecasting and prediction (Age 1995) High performance execution of innovation throw outs to plan are limited to incremental innovation shoot forwards for which documented, historical courses provide a basis for repeated succes (Senhar 1995) owed to the unavailability of a unhurt general theory for improving radical innovation effectiveness, practical guidelines for breakthrough innovation are still based primarily upon historical best practices from case close attention research (Leifer 2000 and 2001 O'Connor 2001 and 2005 Christensen 1995)

Recently a consensus has emerg (NII 2004) that a more rapid and effective approach to radical innovation is extremityed for future industrial and societal competitiveness. Existing innovation strategies for take away from reduction and continuous improvement above the past 25 years are inadequate, and may substantiate counterproductive in creating the high expansion rate industries and sustained economic exhibition and job creation required for succes in the globally joined 21st Century world.

In May 2004 a clump of fifty leading scholars and industrial practitioners of radical innovation from around the world (Dismukes 2004 Bers 2004) established the vision for a dramatically improved, global, accelerated radical innovation methodology that could significantly improve the arduous, meandering, oftentimes decades-long process of radical innovation, thereby achieving a factor of 2X-10X improvement in innovation effectiveness, as measured through reduced risk, reduced time and reduc take away from To realize this vision, they propos a mission to evolve sound theory and validate practical open-innovation approaches (Chesbrough 2003) that would integrate academic and business innovation professionals and knowledge workers in a collaborative environment enhanced by means of computer science and telecommunication tools.