The basic characteristics knowledge-based innovation differs from all other innovations.
What are time span, casualty rate, predictability, temperamental, capricious, hard to manage and the challenges it poses to the entrepreneur?
100
Demographics
What are changes in population, its size, age structure, composition, employment, educational status and income?
100
Major innovative opportunities.
What happens if general perception changes from seeing the glass as half full to seeing it as half empty?
100
The promise of change
What drives adoption of an innovation?
100
Innovation posits a positive impact on future performance
What is generating new valuable, rare and inimitable resources within the firm that are costly to copy?
200
Lead-time
What is the time between the emerge of new knowledge and its becoming applicable to technology AND the period before the new technology turns into products, processes or services in the market place? It normally is about 25 to 35 years.
200
Unpredictable yet with predictable lead times.
What are demographic shifts?
Discussion: Could the Euro crisis have been predicted, when looking at demographics?
200
Exploiting a change in perception.
What makes it possible for innovators to count on having the field to themselves?
Discussion:
Can the current crisis maybe be turned around by a change in perception?
200
Schemas & scripts
What are knowledge structures that represent objects or events and provide default assumptions about their characteristics, relationships and entailments under conditions of incomplete information & direct individual action and understanding in highly particularised situations?
200
Nuanced relationship between past performance and innovation
What is the result of both using past data and conceptual framework on the relationship between past performance and innovation?
300
Convergences
What is the characteristic that knowledge based innovations are almost never based on one factor, but on the convergence of several different kinds of knowledge, not all of them scientific or technical?
Discussion: How could malaria, which will become a threat to the Western world as well, be fought, if we would look at it from different angles?
300
Centre of population gravity.
What is the age group which at any given time constitutes both the largest and the fastest growing age cohort in the population?
300
The critical problem in perception-based innovation.
What is timing?
300
Robust action
What are actions that remain adaptive in the face of uncertain and evolving conditions over the long run?
300
Direct connection with innovation
What has product innovation more than other types of innovation?
Discussion:
The design of Watson. Simply a better computer or a new innovative way of design?
400
The three major focusses for knowledge based innovation.
What are 1. development of a complete system that would dominate the field, 2. creating a market for the products and 3. to occupy a strategic position?
400
The unwillingness, or inability of the experts to accept demographic realities which do not conform to what they take for granted.
What is the opportunity of the entrepreneur?
Discussion:
Nespresso was launched in the mid 1980s. Explain its success from demographic point of view.
400
Change in perception is a fad or permanent.
What is the reason perception-based innovation has to start small and be very specific?
400
Edison's greatest invention
What is Edison's organisation of the invention process itself?
Discussion:
When looking at mobile phone industry, how was the "invention" organised?
400
In smaller firms
In what companies the positive relationship between innovation and future performance is stronger?
500
Shakeout
What is the phenomena that after the time companies enter a field, the window for entrance closes and the selection of who makes it and who will not sets in?
Discussion: What about the mobile phone/smart phone market? What is happening to Nokia?
500
Secularisation.
What is the decrease in people that attend churches?
Discussion:
What opportunities might rise from this?
500
Examples of changes in perception.
What are black integration, women integration, feminism, ....?
500
Stable social systems
What systems have to be displaced when innovations emerge?
500
Bias in research
What is researchers looking for a positive relationship testing for this positive relationship to exist and vise versa?