EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF THE TECHNOLOGY S-CURVE. PART II: ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES
Abstract
This is the second of two papers in which I use information from the technological history of the disk drive industry to examine the usefulness of the S-curve framework for managers at the firm level in planning for new technology development. In this article I show that it is in architectural, rather than component innovation, that entrant firms exhibit an attacker's advantage. A conventionally drawn sequence of intersecting S-curves is a...
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EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF THE TECHNOLOGY S-CURVE. PART II: ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES
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Published Date
Jan 5, 2009
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Volume
1
Issue
4
Pages
358 - 366
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