Radical innovations as drivers of breakthroughs: characteristics and properties of the management of technology leading to superior organisational performance in the discovery process of R&D labs
Radical innovations as drivers of breakthroughs: characteristics and properties of the management of technology leading to superior organisational performance in the discovery process of R&D labs
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DOI：
10.1080/09537325.2015.1095287
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发表时间：
2016-04
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
M. Coccia
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作者：
M. Coccia
摘要在技术管理和创新经济学中，一个有趣的问题是如何解释研究机构中一些突破的来源。本研究通过分析准周期材料的发现的主要决定因素来面对这一问题，准周期材料的发现导致了结晶学的科学范式转变。归纳研究表明，在研究实验室采用的突破性创新，由高技能采用者使用(称为面向实验室的突破性创新；例如，传输电子显微镜)，支持突破和增强发现过程。这一证据证实了一个理论框架，该框架解释了以实验室为导向的突破性创新的主要关系、特征和特性，这些创新改善了发现过程，并在先进科学领域诱导了卓越的组织绩效。讨论了R&D管理的含义。
ABSTRACT An interesting problem in management of technology and economics of innovation is how to explain the sources of some breakthroughs in research organisations. The present study confronts this problem by analysing the main determinant of the discovery of quasi-periodic materials that has generated a scientific paradigm shift in crystallography. The inductive study shows that radical innovations adopted in research labs, used by high-skilled adopters (called lab-oriented radical innovations; e.g. the Transmission Electron Microscopy), support breakthroughs and enhance discovery processes. This evidence substantiates a theoretical framework, which explains the main relations, characteristics, and properties of lab-oriented radical innovations that improve discovery processes and induce the superior organisational performance in advanced scientific fields. R&D management implications are discussed.