In an environment of globalisation, intense competition and rising R&D costs, collaboration has become an essential means of sustaining technological growth.
There has been a problem in advancing and sustaining technological development in developing countries especially in Africa.
Christensen called these low-end products "disruptive technologies," because, rather than sustaining technological progress toward better performance, they disrupted it.
This introduces opportunities for public intervention aimed at sustaining technological development in SMEs, especially through technology transfer processes.
A society, in short, has to be well primed with suitable resources in order to sustain technological innovation.
Increasing skill and experience, together with sustaining technological innovations such as stents, have allowed angioplasty to supplant surgery in many cases.
Visions and imaginaries sustaining technological innovation do matter: Scientists' and companies' values need to be unpacked and analysed.
"Decoupling of human welfare from environmental impacts will require a sustained commitment to technological progress and the continuing evolution of social, economic, and political institutions alongside those changes," says the manifesto.
Specifically, firms with low technological-competence-enhancing capability tend to follow a convergent growth pattern in which firm growth gradually declines, while firms with high technological-competence-enhancing capability tend to exhibit either a sustained or a vicious growth pattern depending on the initial size of their technological knowledge stock.
For more than 30 years, the MIT Communications Forum has conducted a sustained, in-depth exploration of the cultural, political, economic and technological impact of communications, with special emphasis on emerging technologies.
One speaker got a sustained ovation.
