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Excerpt from The Hypercube of Innovation
Stated differently, the studies just cited have the innovating entity asking the question: What is the impact of this innovation on my organizational capabilities, competence, existing products, knowledge of components, key concepts and linkages between them. In the hypercube of innovation approach we are suggesting that in addition to probing what the innovation will do to its competence and assets, the innovating entity must also ask the question: What will my innovation do to the competence and products of my suppliers, oem customers, end-user customers, and suppliers (some of which are competitors) of key complementary innovations i.e. What is the impact of the innovation at the various stages of its valueadded chain? For products whose design and manufacture depend on critical components and equipment from suppliers, products whose diffusion depends on complementary innovations or which offer customers positive network externalities, and involve a high level of learning, categorizations that neglect what the innovation does to this supporting network along the innovation value-added chain can have disastrous consequences. The hypercube model forces innovation managers to think in terms of what the impact of their innovation is going to be on customers, suppliers of critical components, equipment, and complementary innovations. Since customers and users can also be future innovators (von i-iippel, the hypercube may also help the innovating entity tract potential competitors and complementary innovators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
