Technological Discontinuities

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Excerpt from Technological Discontinuities: The Emergence of Fiber OpticsThis pattern of discontinuity occurs when new firms entering the existing business introduce a product with very different properties from the existing ones. The new product is so unrelated to the existing one that traditional firms cannot use existing processes to replicate the new product since a new process is required. Although initially crude and expensive, the new product's higher performance in at least one dimension enable it to enter niche markets. As the dominant design (abernathy, 1978) for the new product emerges, it introduces both major product and process changes compared to theexisting product which is being changed incrementally to improve productivity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.