Technology & Innovation
Technology & Innovation
The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard Rosenbloom on technology and information transfers in the 1960's and 1970's started the Technology Strategy field and helped pave the path for our research today, which focuses on value creation of platforms and two-sided markets; use of open architecture and leverage of its collective value; development and execution of innovation strategies; innovative attributes of executives and firms; development of new markets through the creation of disruptive innovations that displace earlier technologies; development of innovations in sectors; and the impact of innovation on economic growth.
Digital Initiative
The Digital Initiative is a cross-unit venture that unites scholars and practitioners to explore and impact the transformation of business in today’s digital, networked, and media-rich environment.
DigitalRecent Publications
Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Dominos Rose to the Top
- January 2021 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
- 2021 |
- Book |
- Faculty Research
IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center
- December 2020 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy
- 2020 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany
- Article |
- Harvard Business Review (website)
What Has Changed? The Impact of COVID Pandemic on the Technology and Innovation Management Research Agenda
- December 2020 |
- Article |
- Journal of Management Studies
Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Re‐Shapes Two‐Sided Platforms
- November 2020 |
- Article |
- Journal of Product Innovation Management
We explore how blockchain technology re‐shapes two‐sided platforms, focusing in particular on the role of the platform provider. The research is based upon multiple case studies, using an inductive approach to explore this emerging phenomenon. Our findings show there is a significant shift in the role of the central player that links the two sides of a transaction using blockchain. We frame this as a shift from a "platform provider" to a "service provider", leveraging the blockchain as a Platform‐as‐a‐Service. Our work examines the peculiarities of this model, unveiling new dynamics in these businesses. Specifically, we show that different variables must be considered to classify two‐sided platforms using blockchain. Furthermore, the essential characteristics of two‐sided platforms must also be enlarged. For example, traditional platform theories emphasize the importance of cross‐side network externalities in creating value. In blockchain‐enabled platforms however, we show the use of “tokens” play a key role in creating different types of externalities between the two sides.
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
- November 2020 |
- Article |
- Research Policy
Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience
- September 2020 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Merck: COVID-19 Vaccines
- September 2020 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Seminars & Conferences
- 11 Feb 2021
- 18 Feb 2021