Synonyms
Competence destroying; Destructive creation; Discontinuous innovations; Disruptive innovations; Killer technologies; Major innovations; Radical innovation; Revolutionary innovations; Technology change; Technology progress
Definition
Destructive technology is a radical innovation, (a new product and/or process) which with high technical and/or economic performance destroys the usage value of established techniques previously sold and used in markets, generating technological, industrial, economic, and social change.
Introduction
Adner (2002, pp. 668–669) claims that:
Disruptive technologies … introduce a different performance package from mainstream technologies and are inferior to mainstream technologies along the dimensions of performance that are most important to mainstream customers. As such, in their early development they only serve niche segments that value their non-standard performance attributes. Subsequently, further development raises the disruptive technology’s...
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Coccia, M. (2022). Destructive Technologies for Industrial and Corporate Change. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66252-3_3972
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