Technological innovation in legacy sectors / William B. Bonvillian and Charles Weiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonvillian, William B., author.

Weiss, Charles, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--United States.

Technological innovations.

Industries--United States.

Industries.

Economic development--United States.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Resistance by vested interests to disruptive technological innovation limits growth, sustainability and the creation of quality jobs in more than two thirds of the US economy. This book uses a new, unifying conceptual framework to identify the shared features underlying structural obstacles to innovation in major legacy sectors: energy, air and auto transport, the electric grid, construction, health care delivery and higher education.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""1. The Root Problems: Expanding Innovation and Creating Jobs ""; "" Jobless Innovation and the Engineering Fault Line ""; ""Locked-in, Legacy Sectors ""; ""Double Trouble ""; ""The Dynamics of Innovation and the Innovation Environment ""; ""Globalization, Manufacturing, and Innovation ""; ""Technological Lock-in in Legacy Sectors ""; ""2. The Legacy Sector Challenge ""; ""Why Legacy Sectors? ""; """Driving Covered Wagons East" ""; ""Market Imperfections Affecting "Normal" Innovations ""; ""Obstacles to Innovation in Legacy Sectors ""

""3. Paradigms as Obstacles to Innovation in Legacy Sectors """"Five Models of the Dynamics of Innovation ""; ""Pipeline and Extended Pipeline Models in US Innovation ""; ""The Origins of the Paradigm Concept ""; ""Sectoral Paradigms and Dominant Product Designs ""; ""Technological Lock-in in Entrenched Legacy Sectors ""; ""Obstacles to Creative Destruction in Legacy Sectors ""; ""4. Production Matters ""; ""The "Innovate Here, Produce Here" Assumption ""; """Produce There, Innovate There": The Innovation Data ""; ""Production of Goods, Not Just Services ""

""The Geopolitics of Industrial Production """"Eroding Advanced IT Sectors ""; ""Implications along the "Engineering Fault Line" ""; ""An Innovation-Intensive Response ""; ""The Fusion of Production and Services ""; ""The Disrupted Domestic Innovation Value Chain ""; ""5. What's Blocking Innovation in Legacy Sectors? ""; ""Paradigms Inhibiting Innovation in Legacy Sectors ""; ""Paradigm-Compatible Innovations ""; ""Paradigm-Incompatible Innovations and Disruption-Resistant Legacy Technology ""; ""Explanation of the Imperfections in Technology Markets That Affect Legacy Sectors ""

""Summary of the Market Imperfections Affecting Legacy Sectors """"6. Six US Legacy Sectors: Energy, the Grid, Buildings, Air and Auto Transport, and Manufacturing ""; ""Energy ""; ""The Electric Power Grid ""; ""Buildings ""; ""Air Transport ""; ""Driverless Cars and Intelligent Transportation Systems ""; ""Manufacturing ""; ""7. Applying the Legacy Framework to Service Sectors: Higher Education and Healthcare Delivery ""; ""Higher Education ""; ""Healthcare Delivery ""; ""The Context of Service Sector Innovation ""; ""8. Innovating in the Defense Sector ""

""The Revolution in Military Affairs """"The Defense Department's Systems Approach ""; ""Defense as a Legacy Sector ""; ""Stealth Aircraft ""; ""Precision Strike ""; ""Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ""; ""The Role of DARPA ""; ""Innovation at the Defense Department ""; ""Change Agents and Meta-Change Agents ""; ""Lessons from the Implementation of Innovation in Defense ""; ""9. Enabling and Disabling National Innovation Environments in Europe, China, and India ""; ""Innovation Environments, Contexts, and Systems ""; ""The International Innovation System and the Value Chains within It ""

""Strongly Enabling and Disabling Innovation Contexts: Scandinavia and Russia ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 11, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-937453-8

0-19-937454-6

0-19-937452-X