Functional mapping of nanoscience to industrial engineering products and capabilities

Functional mapping of nanoscience to industrial engineering products and capabilities

De Koning, J.

Technology, Policy and Management

Policy Analysis

Management of Technology

2013-02-07

At some point in time all incumbent firms have to decide how to deal with radically new technologies. Due to the high uncertainty of return from such technologies companies might refrain from investing in such technologies early on. The threat of missing out on opportunities forces firms to make poorly based decisions. Within this thesis an improved method is constructed and tested that provides firms with better understanding of the radically new technology field. This better understanding is achieved by confronting the technology field with the applied technologies existing within a firm through the use of a matrix representation. The technologies are rated by their potential which depends on their link to strategies and technologies provided by the case company. At the basis for this method is the of usage of matrices to provide overview of a field, which could be used conjointly with so called resource-product matrices introduced by Wernerfelt (part of the Resource Based View). Nanotechnology is chosen as the radically new technology to be applied in this thesis due to the interest in literature and due to the specific interest expressed by the case firm.

Radical Technology
Innovation Management
Nanotechnology
Technogy Assessment

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Student theses

master thesis

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