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Two Common Paths of Innovation System Evolution

In: Competitive Innovation Management

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  • James A. Christiansen

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If you read the literature on innovation, you will find that there are many books and articles on how to improve an innovation system. The problem is that they do not all address the problem in the same way, and the solutions they propose are not completely compatible. For example, a variety of writers on the automobile (for example, Womack et al., 1990; Clark and Fujimoto, 1991) and pharmaceutical (for example, Spilker, 1989) industries have described how the innovation process can be made more efficient (quicker, and less costly). Other writers (for example, Schroeder et al., 1989; Van de Ven et al., 1989; Garud and Van de Ven, 1992; Brown and Eisenhardt, 1998; Meyer, 1998) offer quite different prescriptions. Looking at projects in a variety of industries, they describe methods of diversifying and managing the proliferation of ideas. Are these prescriptions compatible with each other? Should all companies adopt both prescriptions? If so, how? If not, which prescriptions are valid when?

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  • James A. Christiansen, 2000. "Two Common Paths of Innovation System Evolution," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Competitive Innovation Management, chapter 7, pages 191-211, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-00110-7_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230001107_7
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