TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology vision for radical innovation and its impact on early success
AU - Reid, Susan E.
AU - Roberts, Deborah
AU - Moore, Karl
PY - 2015/6/2
Y1 - 2015/6/2
N2 - For firms involved with the very early stages of emergent radical innovation, technical goals are often held in the mind(s) of only one or a few individuals. The way these individuals mentally imagine or visualize such goals, or "technology visions," provides an important looking glass for understanding a firm's progression along the path of involvement from a technical discontinuity toward project-level and organizational-level involvement with a given technology. Utilizing a large sample of firms engaged in radical innovation in North America and the United Kingdom, this empirical study examines the impact of five dimensions of technology vision on early success: benefits goals, efficiency goals, magnetism, specificity, and infrastructure clarity. Technology vision is found to have a significant positive impact on technical competitive advantage, early success with customers, and ability to attract capital, as measures of early success.
AB - For firms involved with the very early stages of emergent radical innovation, technical goals are often held in the mind(s) of only one or a few individuals. The way these individuals mentally imagine or visualize such goals, or "technology visions," provides an important looking glass for understanding a firm's progression along the path of involvement from a technical discontinuity toward project-level and organizational-level involvement with a given technology. Utilizing a large sample of firms engaged in radical innovation in North America and the United Kingdom, this empirical study examines the impact of five dimensions of technology vision on early success: benefits goals, efficiency goals, magnetism, specificity, and infrastructure clarity. Technology vision is found to have a significant positive impact on technical competitive advantage, early success with customers, and ability to attract capital, as measures of early success.
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U2 - 10.1111/jpim.12221
DO - 10.1111/jpim.12221
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84930599292
SN - 0737-6782
VL - 32
SP - 593
EP - 609
JO - Journal of Product Innovation Management
JF - Journal of Product Innovation Management
IS - 4
ER -