Disruptive technology adoption, particularities of clustered firms

Technology Adoption and Absorption: The Case of Shanghai Firms

Using a unique firm-level survey dataset collected by one of the authors, this paper addresses two questions central to the literature on technology diffusion: What factors influence technology adoption, and how well do firms absorb newly acquired technology? We find that given the same technical capacity, firms with better access to cheap bank credit are more likely to adopt larger technology ...

Disruptive Technology

The term "disruptive technology" as coined by Christensen (1997) refers to a new technology having lower cost and performance measured by traditional criteria, but having higher ancillary performance. Christensen finds that disruptive technologies may enter and expand emerging market niches, improving with time and ultimately attacking established products in their traditional markets. This con...

Nano-technology: a Disruptive Technology?

From the Guest Editor Dialogue on the Effects of Disruptive Technology on Firms and Industries

“Disruptive” Applications of GPGPU Technology

GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) are gaining a foothold in various industries to accelerate several types of applications, comprising a potential disruptive technology [1] in computing; that is, one capable of creating a new area of development. Well-known examples include image processing [2], linear algebra [3], and protein folding [4]. These application areas are extrapolations of applicatio...