A Study on Technological Innovation: Strategy, Procedure, Typology Along With Significances In the Economy
Exploring the Implications of Technological Innovation in the Economy
by Kishan Kumar Gupta*,
- Published in International Journal of Information Technology and Management, E-ISSN: 2249-4510
Volume 4, Issue No. 1, Feb 2013, Pages 0 - 0 (0)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
Developing investment worldwide to support advancement inbusiness area exercises, particularly the engineering, is proposed to lookafter or build national budgetary aggressiveness, comprehensively as an impactof cognizance concerning the impacts coming about because of budgetary movementon utilization of assets nature's turf, which needs outline of new examples ofcreation and utilization. In this paper we audit the most vital commitments inthe writing regarding the suggestions of innovative advancement in the economy,at the microand macroeconomic level, survey the conglomeration's capability toproduce new thoughts in backing of expanding handling, occupation and naturalassurance, beginning from the notions of improvement, development process and,separately, from the improvement typology dissection.
KEYWORD
technological innovation, strategy, procedure, typology, significances, economy, investment, national financial competitiveness, resource utilization, production, employment, environmental protection, development, growth process
INTRODUCTION
Which are the suggestions of enhancement in monetary and social life? The reply to this inquiry, as one can contend, is dependent upon the importance of the term enhancement. A pervasive recognition on improvement is one that implies progressed innovation results offered by utilizing the most cutting edge information. Such improvements are fundamentally recognized to be the consequence of greatly skilled workforce and organizations action with critical research and advancement force, having close linkages to the most essential focuses of magnificence in the exploratory planet. The essentialness of enhancement is, be that as it may, broader and incorporates developments that are not realized inside towering tech industry said above. From this final viewpoint, enhancements don't incorporate just new features or processes, and yet blanket the enhanced ones came about because of the alleged flat tech parts, which might have total budgetary and social impacts as critical. Developing investment worldwide to support inventive action of undertakings, particularly innovative enhancement, is planned to keep up or upgrade the aggressiveness of national economies, and yet is an aftereffect of cognizance of the impacts on utilization of assets and environment affect came about because of investment action, which needs plan of new examples of processing and utilization. In this paper, we talk over the courses in which mechanical improvement donates to financial advancement. In the setting of this examination, we look to satisfactory improvement of conglomerations therefore of their capacity to produce new plans in backing of expanding handling, business and ecological assurance. Accordingly, area 2 is assigned to the concept of innovative improvement and enhancement process, considering properties not long ago joined into the symbolic reflecting the effect of diverse sorts of improvements possible on the investment and social life. Since the suggestions of diverse sorts of innovative improvement in the economy still embody a disputable theme in the writing, particularly in the experimental one, we recognize first to investigate the sorts of improvements in segment 3, from diverse perspectives. In area 4 we framework the speculative and experimental existing system noticing the occurrence of mechanical improvement in the economy by assessing the most vital commitments to literary works and area 5 finishes up.
MECHANICAL ADVANCEMENT CONCEPT AND
ADVANCEMENT PROCESS
The Schumpeterian outlook approaches monetary growth as a qualitative updates process, as results of advancement. Hence, J. Schumpeter addresses development as a capacity of entrepreneurial movement, in which "new consolidations" of existing assets happen.
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The definition offered by Schumpeter in the Theory of Economic Development (1934) is pressing on to be referential in cohorting "new consolidations" of handling variables of new items and administrations, presenting new generation processes, advertising and business conglomeration. In rule, the writing works with recognizing idea from advancement. Case in point, F. Malerba (1997) outlines creation as another thought, a new logical revelation or a mechanical novelty (which has not been enabled and diffused), while development implies a tradable requisition of a creation, accordingly of idea joining into financial and social rehearse. Enhancement is respected, in this manner, being a consequence of a process that begins with a thought genesis and proceeds with its emergence. In the same Schumpeterian setting, Oslo Manual (2005) demarcates development to be an movement that generates new or essentially enhanced products (features or administrations), processes, promoting routines or business conglomeration. In this schema, as per Frascati Manual (Oecd, 2002), mechanical advancements involve new or essentially adjusted mechanical features and processes, where innovative variety rises, unlike enhancements, from their exhibition aspects. Advancement processes don't show the same qualities observing budgetary assets captivated and reachable results, however present separations at the venture level as per the enhancement sort, association's estimate or its method and encounter in enhancement zone. Differences of creative processes creates challenges in dissecting expenses and comes about of enhancement exercises by utilizing micro-accumulated information. Challenges in breaking down of enhancement business action are owed, in our estimation, to the way that development is not a straight process comprising of consecutive, time and conceptual-unique stages that demarcate unidirectional causalities. Development is dependent upon the utilization of formerly gained information, on the outcomes of new innovations, on the mechanical improvement or on the new mixtures of existing innovation. In any case, the "straight model" – while it doesn't portray all conceivable associations between the phases of enhancement process and, individually, by rethinking the most punctual ones by the undertaking which, in turn, can prompt new enhancements – is handy in appreciating development process in acknowledgement of reliance unfolding of every stage as per going before one conclusion.
Figure . Technological innovation process
INNOVATION TYPOLOGY
Schumpeter (1934) distinguished five innovation types: new produces, new production methods, exploitation of new markets, new ways to offer products on the market and new ways of business organization. In his turn, J. Schmookler (1966) differentiated “technological product” from “technological production” by defining the first innovation type in terms of how to create or improve products, and the last concerns how to produce them, and Pavitt (1987, p. 9) notes that “technologies are specific to product and process innovation”. Similarly, “product innovation” and “process innovation” terms were used later in Oslo Manual (2005) as types of technological innovations. In this sense, product technological innovation is the result of producing and commercialization of new goods (products or services) or with improved performance characteristics, while process technological innovation corresponds to the implementation or adoption of a new or improved production process. We can admit that most innovative companies introduce both types of innovations in the same time, aiming price competitiveness (especially through process innovation) or technological competitiveness (associated with product innovation). A special attention is given, however, to radical innovation in terms of its contribution to environmental performance. Many countries consider ecoinnovation as an important factor in solving contemporary challenges, including climatic ones, energy and natural resource security. In the same time, firms regard eco-innovation as a potential source of competitive advantage on the market of industrial goods and services. Technological eco-innovations correspond to products or processes incorporating technological progress that contribute to improving environmental conditions and can
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be analyzed using their mechanisms and impact they create. Thus, in terms of mechanisms, technological ecoinnovations are: (i) small and gradual changes brought to products or processes; (ii) re-designing, by operating significant changes brought to the existing products or processes; (iii) introducing alternatives (products or processes) with the same functional characteristics but which operate as replacements of existing products; (iv) creating, designing and introducing of completely new products or processes. In principle, the environmental benefits of new products or production processes or existing alternatives are superior to those resulting from modification or re-designing of existing ones. In its turn, the impact of technological eco-innovations may be curative, by the use of technologies that allow polluting material elimination already released into the environment or a preventive one.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IMPLICATIONS
Creative limit is a crux determinant of investment aggressiveness of countries. In the same time, innovation – the motor of monetary advancement and welfare – is an instrument to settle current worldwide tests identified with environment and health area. We treat here reasonable improvement of conglomerations as the effect of their capability to create new plans in supporting expanding handling, occupation and natural assurance. In the event that innovation is seen to be a major determinant of preparation development, a exuberant civil argument in the writing concerns the impacts of technological innovation on work. Along these lines, feature innovation is recognized to display impacts in terms of enhancing the value and mixed bag of items, making request on the new showcases, expediting generation and livelihood development and to work; likewise, new items diminish require as an outcome of process innovation (Pianta, 2000). Process innovation – connected with diminishing expenses (capital and work) – might confirm add up to component profit development as item innovation does in any case, comprehensively through lessening occupation and bringing down costs (Fagerberg et al., 2006). It is contended likewise that, with the expectation that process innovation expedites expanding items value or bringing down costs, expanded interest may confirm job. As per a few creators, the outcomes regarding job as a rule be certain in apparatus processing segments or negative (the point when request recompense is not enough) in businesses that made new ventures. Natural profits through innovation and in this manner to mankind need to decrease asset utilization or emanations of poisons and in this way escaping ecological harm, administering personal satisfaction, access to characteristic assets of afterward eras and safeguarding of intergenerational financial potential. In the meantime, assembling of new items or execution of new amicable to environment processes in a given division includes advancement of different parts, expediting supportable financial advancement. In this manner, innovation is seen as the motor of reasonable improvement in the final decade.
CONCLUSIONS
Undoubtedly, the role of innovation in economic and social life results from the function of innovation regarding introducing newness and variety in the human activity. In the absence of innovation processes, the economy would enter a “stationary stage”, characterized by modest growth or no growth. As a result, innovation is crucial for sustainable (long term) economic development. The intensity of innovation is an explanatory factor of differences in economic performance between companies, regions and countries. Innovative organizations which record successes in innovation activities are prosperous at the expense of the more modest competitors involved in innovation. Catchingup the countries or regions situated in a innovation leaders position involves efforts to enhance innovative activity, both through research and development and diffusion in the manifested interest to increase production, employment and environmental protection, justifying the concern of many states in stimulating innovation. Innovation capacity of enterprises is a function of their ability to develop coherent technological strategies, to acquire and absorb technologies, to form and exploit linkages with third parties and to develop other useful skills for innovation. From this perspective, at the highest level are firms that absorb cutting-edge technologies and innovate in high-tech industries and at the lowest level are firms without technological capacity. Non-R&D dimensions of technological development are, in particular, beneficial for enterprises that are not engaged in R&D, are far away from the technological frontier, and do not require cutting-edge R&D to improve their competitive position. For these firms, we believe that assistance in building skills related to acquisition and the use of technologies may be more relevant than additional public R&D funding. A different approach from this point of view requires eco-innovation domain, where radical innovations focused on R&D register the highest efficiency in the environmental protection and are based on R&D activities, in which higher costs are involved on a longer time horizon, increased uncertainty in obtaining incomes and low supply
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of financial resources.
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