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On User Needs and Need Determination: Aspects of the Theory of Technological Innovation

In: Industrial Innovation

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  • Morris Teubal
  • Brian C Twiss

Abstract

Technological innovation, like the activity of production, may be regarded as induced by human needs, but unlike it these needs are frequently not represented by an unambiguous and well-defined market or demand curve. Innovations generally involve a new product component and in so far as this is so they precede the generation of markets and demand curves. They should accordingly be regarded as responses to more general, less defined needs than those expressible in terms of well-defined markets or demand.

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  • Morris Teubal & Brian C Twiss, 1979. "On User Needs and Need Determination: Aspects of the Theory of Technological Innovation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Michael J. Baker (ed.), Industrial Innovation, chapter 14, pages 266-293, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03822-0_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03822-0_14
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    1. Thomas Pircher & Conny J. M. Almekinders, 2021. "Making sense of farmers’ demand for seed of root, tuber and banana crops: a systematic review of methods," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(5), pages 1285-1301, October.
    2. Andreas Chai, 2018. "Household consumption patterns and the sectoral composition of growing economies: A review of the interlinkages," Discussion Papers in Economics economics:201802, Griffith University, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics.
    3. Edward J. Malecki, 1983. "Technology and Regional Development: A Survey," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 8(2), pages 89-125, October.

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