Research Summary
Research Summary
Science-Based Business and the Business of Science
By: H. Kent Bowen
Description
Science and technology can provide strategic advantage to companies' through differentiated products and processes. The focus of our research is on unusually productive and creative labs that are the sources of breakthroughs that create platforms for sustained advantage. This requires new research to develop an understanding of the structure and management processes that lead to superior performance. We believe that commercialization of breakthroughs also requires new business models. The first phases of this work is field-based case studies.