The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S.
This article was the cover history of the BusinessWeek on June 3th.
I strongly recommend it for anybody on innovation and organization studies.
You can check it HERE.
The author showed a link between the histories of some organizations (companies) and the failed of their innovation processes.
The fail explanations for the cases were always based on the lack of commercialization knowledge.
Off course, I think that ANT (Actor Network theory) could offer a deeper explanation of the phenomena.
To see an academic explanation of the problem, based on other innovation cases, you can check: The Akrish, Callon and Latour (2002a) and (2202b) papers where they explain, based on Actor Network Theory; the success or fail of innovations.
I’m going to talk about this in future posts.
Have you had a look at Clay Shirky’s Here comes every-body? He does a good job on explaining how businesses do or dont take off also; very ant like understandings.
Dear Ailsa:
Thanks for your hint!.
Your blog is great!. I think that we share some theoretical ideas about technology and ANT.
I’m sure that we will be in contact.