A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
The fog of innovation: Innovativeness and deviance in developing new clinical testing equipment
Authors: Hoyssa M, Hyysalo S
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Publication year: 2009
Journal: Research Policy
Journal name in source: RESEARCH POLICY
Journal acronym: RES POLICY
Volume: 38
Issue: 6
First page : 984
Last page: 993
Number of pages: 10
ISSN: 0048-7333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.02.003(external)
Abstract
Even when innovators know they are working with a potential breakthrough innovation, they face formidable difficulties in assessing the exact ways it will be innovative as well as deviant in regard to extant systems, business and practices. This finding emerges from our case study that spans the 40-year history of an ongoing and by now potentially radical innovation in automated and miniaturized liquid processing. We analyze the changes in the system-to-be and its relationship to its future contexts throughout this period and show how the developers were able to reliably predict technical compatibility, the outcome, the interface points and effects towards the intended environment only some distance ahead. This 'fog of innovation' presents a management challenge not duly met by instruments available in innovation literature. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Even when innovators know they are working with a potential breakthrough innovation, they face formidable difficulties in assessing the exact ways it will be innovative as well as deviant in regard to extant systems, business and practices. This finding emerges from our case study that spans the 40-year history of an ongoing and by now potentially radical innovation in automated and miniaturized liquid processing. We analyze the changes in the system-to-be and its relationship to its future contexts throughout this period and show how the developers were able to reliably predict technical compatibility, the outcome, the interface points and effects towards the intended environment only some distance ahead. This 'fog of innovation' presents a management challenge not duly met by instruments available in innovation literature. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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