Disruptive basics

This note will summarise the idea of disruptive technology.

Book review: "Ten types of innovation"

The consulting group Doblin in Chicago has published a book on the innovation process in companies. Their main point is that each real life innovation should utilise three to five out of a total of ten ideal types of innovation. This will maximise the chances of commercial success. Here are the ten types:

Does the stock market put pressure on companies to reduce R&D?

The field of finance used to be very dogmatic regarding the efficiency of financial markets. Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) said that new paradigms only surface when the older generation of researchers die. The generation of arrogant, efficient-market fundamentalists in finance is now largely gone. Younger researchers document many interesting phenomena. There is not yet a new paradigm, though. This post looks at how companies' R&D effort change when they are subject to stock market pressure.