Technological Innovation

This book explores how technological management can adapt and succeed in a world of inevitable oversights and foresights.

Challenges for building a theory of technological innovation stem from the inevitability of oversights and foresights. How can the slim odds of success be enhanced? This book suggests how innovation outcomes can be systematic and enacted by technology entrepreneurs who break away from past constraints in order to actively manage present innovation activities.The capacity for technology businesses to grow and change with the times is linked to how they develop and market technological innovations. Despite the importance of technological changes for corporate vitality, there are documented instances of corporations failing to capitalize on technological opportunities. Innovation outcome is contingent upon a match between a firm's internal capabilities and its external environments, even as innovation activities are complex and constrained. How can the slim odds of success be enhanced? Technological Innovation analyses why companies choose certain new technologies, from a technological, economic and institutional perspective. Based upon multidisciplinary research on technological choice, the book bridges research and practice.