Title :
Modularity and discontinuous innovation: A patent data analysis in automobile industry
Author :
Hai-long, Wang ; Ming, Huang
Author_Institution :
21st Century Dev. Res. Center, Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China
Abstract :
As one major driving force to the growth of regional economy, discontinuous industrial innovation has been a focus field in previous literatures. Recent studies tend to offer modularity as a solution to growing complexity across the product, organization and industry domains. However, little attention has been paid to link modularity with discontinuous innovation. Therefore, our research aims to examine the relationship between modularity and discontinuous innovation at industry level. In fact, both of their information and evolutional paths can be explored by patent analysis. Thus, the patent data from automobile industry is used to explore their correlations. Corresponding indicators constructed by patent information are employed to analyze the dynamics of modularity and evolution of discontinuous technology in automobile industry. This analysis tries to provide a quantitative and dynamic perspective for understanding development of industrial technologies and demonstrating coevolution of modularity and discontinuous innovation.
Keywords :
automobile industry; industrial economics; innovation management; organisational aspects; patents; automobile industry; discontinuous innovation; discontinuous technology; evolutional paths; growing complexity; industrial technology; industry domains; modularity innovation; organization domains; patent analysis; patent data analysis; patent information; regional economy; Automobiles; Industries; Patents; Polymers; Process control; Technological innovation; discontinuous innovation; industrial innovation; management of technology; modularity; patent analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8116-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSE.2010.5719882