Heart Surgery and Disruptive 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?

“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...

Disruptive Technology or Visionary Leadership?

C hristensen’s (1997) thesis of disruptive technology has been highly praised and popular with managers. Two of its premises are important and insightful. These deal with the performance path of a disruptive technology and its impact on dominant incumbents who ignore it in favor of listening to their current consumers. However, Christensen’s thesis also suffers from limitations, two of which ar...

A novel, disruptive vaccination technology

Nucleotide based vaccines represent an enticing, novel approach to vaccination. We have developed a novel immunization technology, RNActive(®) vaccines, that have two important characteristics: mRNA molecules are used whose protein expression capacity has been enhanced by 4 to 5 orders of magnitude by modifications of the nucleotide sequence with the naturally occurring nucleotides A (adenosine...