IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-07455-6_24.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Lucas Aerospace: Brushless Generators for Aircraft

In: Post-Innovation Performance

Author

Listed:
  • Luke Georghiou
  • J. Stanley Metcalfe
  • Michael Gibbons
  • Tim Ray
  • Janet Evans

Abstract

English Electric’s Aircraft Equipment Division (AED) won the Queen’s Award in 1966 for work which had led to lighter and more reliable electrical generating systems for aircraft. From the point of view of subsequent technological change, this achievement may be seen in the context of a long-term trend towards improved power-to-weight ratios in aircraft generating systems and the evolution of a technologically mature product. In assessing this strand of technological development the present case-study provides an interesting insight into the process of capitalisation of the benefits of success in the face of substantial changes in the structure of the UK aircraft equipment supply industry. The study also gives some indication of how an innovating organisation’s performance has been influenced by wider aspects of its operating environment, and specifically the role played by technology licence agreements.

Suggested Citation

  • Luke Georghiou & J. Stanley Metcalfe & Michael Gibbons & Tim Ray & Janet Evans, 1986. "Lucas Aerospace: Brushless Generators for Aircraft," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Post-Innovation Performance, chapter 19, pages 210-219, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07455-6_24
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07455-6_24
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07455-6_24. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.