Innovation and adoption of new materials
Innovation and adoption of new materials
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新材料的创新和采用
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2000
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E. Maine
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E. Maine
将一种新材料引入市场的过程中存在许多风险
Many risks stand in the way of introducing a new material into the market
place- some technical, some production related, some market oriented and some
financial. Over the past 50 years, because of these risks, new material innovations
have been commercialised almost exclusively by large corporations, and their
development has had a long gestation period. If the risks can be estimated, quantified
and managed at an early stage, and the risk-return is sufficiently financially attractive,
then the gestation time of a new materials innovation is likely to be shortened. Tools
exist for investigating aspects of these risks, but they were not originally developed
with materials innovations in mind, nor have they been integrated into a coherent and
accessible methodology which combines powerful predictive software tools with
business strategy.
For these reasons, the investment methodology for materials (IMM) has been
introduced and developed in this thesis. IMM is intended to help identify promising
materials innovations at an early stage by adapting existing and emerging predictive
tools to materials innovations and linking them to give a practical, comprehensive
procedure. The viability of this methodology has been demonstrated both by testing
some of its parts through exploration of innovation with light emitting polymers
(LEPs), oriented polymers (OPs), and cast octet-truss (OT) structures, anddemonstrating
the whole procedure- through a major case study of the introduction of
metal foams into automobiles. IMM consists of three interwoven segments: viability,
market forecasting and value capture.
IMM is aimed in particular at Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs)
which are attempting to commercialise a new materials innovation. Preliminary
empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that the structure of the materials industry
is changing such that SMEs can now drive a major materials innovation. The most
important elements of this change- greater inter-firm connectivity and trends towards
collaborative work- have reduced existing barriers to SMEs by improving access to
capital and by making it easier to scan the marketplace for suitable applications. It is
envisioned that IMM will assist SMEs in obtaining financing to commercialise new
materials innovations and/or to refocus their efforts.