Innovation trends in the space industry. Volume 25

235 Pages·2020·4.998 MB·English

by  Paulino, Victor Dos Santos

Innovation Trends in the Space Industry

Smart Innovation Set
coordinated by
Dimitri Uzunidis
Volume 25
Innovation Trends in
the Space Industry

Victor Dos Santos Paulino
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Chapter 1. Theoretical and Empirical Framework . . . . 1
1.1. Innovation management: introductory
elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.1. Diversity and legitimacy of innovation . . . . . 3
1.1.2. Typology of innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.3. Developing product innovations . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.4. The industry cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.2. The space industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.2.1. Why study the space industry? . . . . . . . . . 23
1.2.2. Sources and level of analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.2.3. The boundaries of the space industry . . . . . . 25
1.2.4. Structure of the space industry . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 2. The Emergence of Industry: The Influence
of Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.1. The space industry is in the emerging phase . . . 44
2.1.1. Emergence as an object of study . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.1.2. Characterizing emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.1.3. Method: sources and measurements . . . . . . . 49
2.1.4. Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
2.1.5. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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2.2. Customers shape the industry dynamics in
the emergence phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
2.2.1. Theoretical framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
2.2.2. Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
2.2.3. Results: influence of customers on the
emergence of the space industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
2.2.4. Discussion and implications . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
2.3. Demand influences technological change . . . . . . 70
2.3.1. Sources, data and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
2.3.2. Loss of impetus resulting in technical
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
2.3.3. Influence of demand on technological
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2.3.4. Discussion and conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 3. Slow Adoption of Innovations: A Key
Success Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.1. Slow adoption of technological innovations:
a key success factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
3.1.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
3.1.2. Inertia: a literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
3.1.3. Modeling a strategy of technological inertia
based on reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
3.1.4. Research methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
3.1.5. Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
3.1.6. Discussion and conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
3.2. Slow adoption of organizational innovations:
a key success factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.2.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.2.2. Organizational change: a literature review . . 111
3.2.3. Modeling the organizational inertia
strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
3.2.4. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
3.2.5. Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
3.2.6. Discussion and conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter 4. Technological Discontinuities and
Strategic Diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
4.1. Disruptive innovations and threat analysis . . . . 132
4.1.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
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4.1.2. The theory of disruptive innovations . . . . . . 134
4.1.3. Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
4.1.4. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
4.1.5. Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
4.1.6. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
4.1.7. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191