Many governmental space activities need to be planned with a time horizon that extends beyond the comfort zone of reliable technology development assessments and predictions. In an environment of accelerating technological change, a methodological approach to non-core technology trends and potentially disruptive, game-changing developments not yet linked to the space sector is increasingly impo...

When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology – initially lagging in the predominant performance metric, but with a potentially favorable trajectory of improvement – incumbents may be wary of engaging in cooperative commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively) competitive commerciali...

Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive technology and related theories have received extensive coverage and attention in business publications, management research and practise (Danneels, 2004; Hüsig et al., 2005). The term “disruptive technology” finds more than 300,000 entries in Google which is quite close to the more traditional innovation category “radical innovation” with around 495,000...

on behalf of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry. INNO makers in adopting appropriate responses to emerging innovation needs, trends and phenomena. It is part of the European Commission's PRO INNO Eur focal point for innovation policy analysis and cooperation. The INNO monitoring (Lot 2) is carried out by empirica GmbH and ICEG European Cent Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köl...

Disruptive innovations are innovations that have the capacity to transform a whole business into one with products that are more accessible and affordable (cf. Christensen et al. 2009). As Christensen et al. argue no business is immune to such disruptive innovations. If these authors are right, it might be relevant to be able to recognize these innovations before they disrupt a business. Incumb...

Purpose – Since the 2008 financial crisis, the financial industry is in need of innovation to increase stability and improve quality of services. The purpose of this paper is to explore internal barriers that influence the effectiveness of projects within large financial services firms focussing on potentially disruptive and radical innovations. While literature has generally focused on barrier...

The transformation of traditional offline operations into digitally integrated offline-online environment has been a difficult challenge for firms from both operational and strategic perspectives, and has become a major topic of research for scholars. We conducted a comparative case study to explore an emerging trend – the convergence of offline and online operations and strategies. This study ...

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