“Radical Technologies” by Adam Greenfield Verso, 2017 368 pages $29.95 (hardcover)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-260
Author(s):  
Michael Shamiyeh
Keyword(s):  
Radical Technologies

Technological Opportunism and Radical Technology Adoption: An Application to E-Business

2002 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raji Srinivasan ◽  
Gary L. Lilien ◽  
Arvind Rangaswamy
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Sense And Respond ◽  
Technology Orientation ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Radical Technologies

Using the resource-based view of the firm, the authors hypothesize that differences in adoption of radical technologies among firms can be attributed to a sense-and-respond capability of firms with respect to new technologies, which is termed technological opportunism. Using survey data from senior managers in business-to-business firms, the authors study the adoption of e-business, a radical technology with the potential to alter business models. The authors first establish the distinctiveness of technological opportunism from related constructs, such as organizational innovativeness, and show that it offers a significantly better explanation of technology adoption than existing constructs do. In a follow-up survey of senior managers, the authors investigate the antecedents of technological opportunism and find that organizations can develop technological opportunism by taking specific actions such as focusing on the future, by having top management advocate new technologies, and by becoming more of an adhocracy culture and less of a hierarchy culture. The proposed technological opportunism construct can inform theory development on the relative emphasis on internal (research and development) versus external (buying, licensing) development of technologies and the complementarities in technology orientation and market orientation in the firm. The results can be used by managers who seek to develop the technological opportunism capability of their firms and by those in technology vendor firms who seek to develop segmentation strategies based on the technological opportunism capabilities of their customer firms.

Disrupting Development? A Situated Perspective on Technology and Innovation in Global Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 146499342110183
Author(s):  
Adam Moe Fejerskov ◽  
Dane Fetterer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Situated Perspective ◽  
Radical Technologies

This article analyses the growing ubiquity of radical technologies and disruptive methodologies in global development. Accelerated by the broad nature of the Sustainable Development Goals, disruption and its related notions of innovation and technology have gradually made it to the centre of attention in development, shaping public and private actors and interventions alike. The article employs a situated analysis of disruption in development to show that as the concept is moving into the field of global development, its meaning and practice is continually—and even contradictorily—reconstructed in constant negotiation with its possible effects. We argue that, beyond a simple buzzword, disruption is employed strategically by different by actors to pursue certain political goals, revealing current movements and lines of discord in the field of global development. While emerging actors use it to challenge the legitimacy of existing donors, more traditional or established actors employ it with a view to remaining relevant in the field, pushing back against the challenge from emerging ones. These interpretative struggles thus are not just isolated ones determining the legitimacy of individual actors but are important for the way they set markers for what development is today, who can legitimately contribute to it and the purposes for which development is pursued.

Mapping the Multi-Industry Terrain of Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Noyes
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
The Core ◽  
Entrepreneurial Opportunities ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
Industry Emergence ◽  
Radical Technologies ◽  
Dominant Theory

This paper examines the multi-industry terrain of nanotechnology entrepreneurship. The core contribution is visual as well as theoretical – the analysis shows the multi-industry ‘footprint’ of nanotechnology entrepreneurial ventures that launch products into different industries. Dominant theory on industry emergence by Garud and Van de Ven (1987) takes a single-industry focus. By contrast, this research suggests that entrepreneurs focusing on radical technologies such as nanotechnology may straddle various industries in an attempt to peer into and develop inter-linkages among different entrepreneurial opportunities and industry contexts. A theoretical contribution, the research challenges Garud and Van de Ven's single-industry scope for understanding industry emergence, particularly in the context of multi-industry opportunities.

Transdisciplinary Innovation: Connecting Ideas from Professional and User Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 02 (04) ◽  
pp. 1750016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Beckett ◽  
Hardik Vachhrajani
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Parallel Testing ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Innovative Idea ◽  
Radical Technologies ◽  
Case Study Data

Transdisciplinary innovation — what is it and how does it work? In this paper, the way disparate professional and community actors may work together is considered, drawing on case study data from three different Australian–Indian academic research collaborations. One considered food sector SME innovation practice in the two countries and the other two considered the deployment in India of radical technologies developed by international teams to deliver social benefits. The collection of knowledge artifacts from disparate sources was the norm. Implementation of an innovative idea or technology application commonly involved interactive learning from parallel testing of possible combinations. Six themes to be explored further emerged from this exploratory study. These related to social networking, interaction protocols, the use of boundary objects, knowledge sharing and modes of research.

scholarly journals Some aspects of modern vision for geoenergy usage

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 01010
Author(s):  
Roman Dychkovskyi ◽  
Mykola Tabachenko ◽  
Kseniia Zhadiaieva ◽  
Edgar Cabana
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Chemical System ◽  
Current State ◽  
Mining Enterprise ◽  
Modern Vision ◽  
Ecological Complex ◽  
Radical Technologies

The paper represents analysis, which have helped to determine tendencies of usage secondary and renewable resources by means of their utilization within the closed ecological complex while implementing integrated cogeneration systems belonging to various sources. Both the current state and prospects of secondary and renewable resources use within the closed complex of a mining enterprise have been considered. Relying upon philosophical approaches as for the formation of a viewpoint concerning responsibility of the modern society to future generations, tendencies to form energy production and energy consumption on the basis of alternative radical technologies have been proposed. The authors have put forward tendencies to change coal mining and coal use while generating the raw material from the abandoned and out-of-balance reserves. Chances to use cogeneration systems by various energy sources have been considered. Formation of the unified power and chemical system to improve economic and ecologic expediency of the proposed measures is the key tendency of energy perfection as well as minimization of impact on the underground mine environment and on the surface to prolong activities of dying mining territories and to reduce social tension.

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