Completed
While some scholars argue that the theory of “disruptive innovation” overlooks socio-economic realities, many across industry, academia, and policy nevertheless embrace the notion that technologies that create new markets and value networks can and do effectively disrupt industries and displace earlier technologies. This GUIRR meeting explored what disruptive innovation and disruptive innovators look like today; how patterns of disruption and business dynamism are changing in a modern world; how the study of disruption can affect the structure of innovation ecosystems; and how disruption can inform national science and technology policy in the present and the future.
Description
An ad hoc committee will organize a workshop on disruptive innovation and gaps in the innovation ecosystem to be held in conjunction with the October 2015 GUIRR meeting. The workshop will explore potentially disruptive technologies in energy, life sciences, transportation, and the sharing economy, and will consider how the study of disruptive innovation can be used to contextualize historical events and to create projections for future trends in the innovation landscape across sectors and industry. The workshop will also explore how consideration of disruptive innovation shapes decision-making within the U.S. innovation ecosystem, and how this affects international competitiveness. A brief rapporteur-authored workshop summary will be published.
Contributors
Staff
Susan Sauer Sloan
Lead
Megan Nicholson
Major units and sub-units
National Academy of Sciences
Collaborator
National Academy of Medicine
Collaborator
Policy and Global Affairs
Lead
Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable
Lead
U.S. Science and Innovation Policy
Lead