Relating business model innovations and innovation cascades: the case of biotechnology |
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Authors: | Jorge Niosi Maureen McKelvey |
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Institution: | 1.School of Management, UQAM,Université du Québec à Montréal,Montreal,Canada;2.School of Business, Economics and Law, Department of Economy and Society, Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship,University of Gothenburg,Gothenburg,Sweden |
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Abstract: | This article conceptualizes innovation as a process, where the scientific and industrial application of technological knowledge nurtures new routines and institutions, in order to relate changing business model innovations to innovation cascades. Innovation in science-based, high-tech sectors is changing its tempo, from the evolutionary pace of incremental novelties punctuated by occasional radical novelties, to innovation cascades. These cascades involve a long series of interlinked radical innovations, which can be traced through various scientific and technological indicators like patents and publications. Innovation cascades are relevant to industry, because they make the future less predictable. They are particularly interesting because these changes also enable the testing an abundance of new business models. Innovation cascades have a major impact on the number and sustainability of business models and on strategy. Business model innovations are visible not only in the existing organizations that undergo change, but also new organizational models appear. The case of biotechnology after the 1980s is used to illustrate our conceptualization. |
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