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Evaluating Technological Innovations
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The key to success in innovation part i: the art of interessement
TL;DR: In the making process of an innovation, it is easy to retrospectively explain success as a stroke of genius or failure as a blatant mistake as discussed by the authors, but what about innovation in the making? How does the innovator navigate the pitfalls which threaten him?
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The key to success in innovation part ii: the art of choosing good spokespersons
TL;DR: “Solve the technical problems first”, “then the authors’ll deal with the market”; the real history of innovations does not generally follow this simple schema.
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The diffusion of innovation among steel firms: the basic oxygen furnace
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the diffusion of this important innovation at a more micro level than previous studies by focusing on plant behavior and found that differences among firms in the rate of adoption of the basic oxygen furnaces are attributable both to the characteristics of the adopting plants that determine the profitability of this innovation and to the size of the firm.
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Exit Strategies and Plant-Closing Decisions: The Case of Steel
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the plant-closing decisions of integrated steel firms and found that individual plant characteristics that determine expected revenues and costs explain much of the firms' plant closing behavior but that firm size may have had some effect.
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Case studies of computer integrated manufacturing systems: A view of uncertainty and innovation processes
TL;DR: In this article, the adoption and implementation of new manufacturing processes are conceptualized in terms of coping with uncertainty, and various coping strategies must be employed to deal with the situation of uncertainty.