When the sky is the limit on scale: From temporal to multiplicative scaling in process-based technologies
| Autor: | Mark Lehrer, I. Kim Wang, Preeta M. Banerjee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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business.industry Management science Process (engineering) Computer science 05 social sciences Context (language use) Work in process 050905 science studies Industrial engineering Software Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Limit (music) 0509 other social sciences Business and International Management Dimension (data warehouse) business Scaling 050203 business & management Applied Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 117:151-159 |
| ISSN: | 0040-1625 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.12.006 |
| Popis: | The design evolution of two important process-based technologies, PCR DNA amplification and ERP software, was punctuated by discrete leaps in scale. From comparison of these technologies we distill a stage model centering on the phenomenon of increasing scale while clarifying just what the concept of scale means in the context of process-based technologies. Process-based technologies turn out to be distinctive because of the temporal aspect of scaling; although scaling up usually refers to spatial dimensions of scale, this research highlights the temporal dimension to scale. Temporal scaling can be complemented by multiplicative scaling, a design innovation enabling multiple processes to be performed in parallel. After highlighting different patterns of innovation from those that characterize manufactured products as conveyed by classic product-process lifecycle models, we reconcile our stage model with these classic lifecycle models: although the sequence of innovation phases is different, the overall evolution of the underlying economic logic motivating technology developers is actually rather similar. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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