Managing Path-Breaking Innovations

CERN-ATLAS, Airbus, and Stem Cell Research

Shantha Liyanage, Rudiger Wink, Markus Nordberg

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2006
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781573569668
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Path-breaking innovations are about instigating fundamental changes in people, organizations, communities, and economies. They are complex, continuous, and evolutionary processes that take considerable time, resources, and the efforts of many individuals and organizations to be accomplished successfully. Representing distinct departures from existing practices, they differ from other types of innovation, such as product extensions and incremental improvements. By examining path-breaking innovation processes through in-depth analysis of several large-scale initiatives around the world, the authors explore how profound changes in product, process, and service can be explained and managed, and consider the practical implications for scientific, organizational, institutional, and political leaders concerned with channeling innovation toward economic growth.

In-depth analysis of science and technology initiatives at CERN-ATLAS, Airbus, and in stem cell research, the authors explore and illuminate how profound changes in product, process, and service can be explained and managed. Covering such issues as organizational culture, types of knowledge, and large-scale project management and resource distribution, the authors consider the practical implications of radical innovation for scientific, organizational, institutional, and political leaders concerned with channeling innovation toward economic growth.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• Tables and Figures
• Foreword by Peter Jenni
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Science and Radical Change
• 2 Philosophy of Production and Work
• 3 Strategies and Collaboration of Big Science and Technology Projects
• 4 The Changed Environment for Radical Innovations
• 5 Innovation and Production in the Twenty-first Century: The Spatial Dimension
• 6 Leadership and Creativity in Path-breaking Innovations
• 7 Funding and Commodification: Managing Resources for Path-breaking Innovations
• 8 Future Scenarios for Knowledge Construction
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Table 3-1 A Comparison of CERN, Stem Cell Research, and Airbus Innovation Efforts
• Table 3-2 Big Science Groups Engaged in Accelerator Research
• Table 3-3 Example of an ATLAS Action List
• Table 4-1 Status of Airbus Orders as of 2006
• Table 4-2 Public and Private Funding for Stem Cell Research in Several Countries
• Table 5-1 Copublications in Stem Cell Research, 2001–2003
• Table 6-1 Leadership in Atomic, Nuclear, and Particle Physics over a Century
• Table 6-2 Scientific Norms and Cultural Context
• Table 6-3 Collaborative Publications by Senior Leaders
• Table 6-4 Research Fields of Publications in Stem Cell Research
• Table 6-5 International Journal Publications in Stem Cell Research, 2001–2003
• Table 6-6 Copublications between Researchers from Different Organizations
• Figure 1-1 The Path-breaking Innovation Process
• Figure 2-1 Types of Human Labor for Work and Production
• Figure 2-2 Waves of Technological Innovations
• Figure 3-1 The Four-Particle Detector Experiments at CERN
• Figure 3-2 The ATLAS Organizational Structure
• Figure 3-3 Role of Technology Management Board in the ATLAS Hierarchy
• Figure 3-4 ATLAS Team at Work
• Figure 3-5 Flow of Resources in ATLAS Collaboration
• Figure 3-6 ATLAS Top Action List
• Figure 3-7 Collaboration Coordinates
• Figure 4-1 Production Value Chain and the Customers
• Figure 4-2 Net Aircraft Orders of Airbus and Boeing
• Figure 4-3 A Comparison of Airbus Family and Competitor Products
• Figure 4-4 Airbus Manufacturing Facilities in Europe
• Figure 4-5 Logistic Coordination of Airbus Production
• Figure 5-1 Global Market Shares in R&D Intensive Goods (in percent)
• Figure 5-2 Annual Growth Rates of Services Imports of United States, 1992–2002
• Figure 5-3 Share of Growth of R&D Expenditure in Selected Countries, 1993–2003
• Figure 5-4 R&D Expenditures by Selected Transnational Companies and Countries, 2002 (in US$ billion)
• Figure 5-5 Most Attractive Prospective R&D Locations (in percent of answers by the 700 Biggest Private R&D Spenders)
• Figure 5-6 Network of Stem Cell Copublications
• Figure 5-7 Structure of Global Economic Performance
• Figure 5-8 Growth Rates in Fast Growth Periods
• Figure 5-9 Gross Expenditures on R&D as Percentage of Gross Domestic Products
• Figure 5-10 Triad Patents Per Million Inhabitants
• Figure 5-11 Traditional Product Life Cycle
• Figure 6-1 Radical Interactions among Scientific Leaders
• Figure 7-1 Airbus Turnover (in US$ billion)
• Figure 7-2 Airbus Order Backlog