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It has been noticed that innovations at the beginning of a product lifecycle tends to be radical, and the product becomes more popular the innovation slow down into incremental developments. This has been seen in many industries, from cars to computers. This 9 page paper considers how and why this pattern of innovation may be seen giving real examples to illustrate the points raised. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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area and this radical innovation slowing down and becoming a more stepped development at time goes by and the market moves through growth stages towards maturity. Mazzucato (2002) illustrates this
with the example of motorcars. When these were first introduced they were very radical, the idea of a vehicle able to move at such a speed without the use of
horses or a steam engine was very radical s it was a way in which families could travel. It was a technology that was available only for the very rich
and a car was usual. As the processes changed and the car designs changed there were radical development, new styles and perhaps the adoption of scientific management techniques for use
in a car factory was also radical and created a new way of selling more cars. These were times of radical developments. If we look at the market there
were radical innovation at different stages concerning the underlying technology, such as the development of the speedometer, automatic transmission and even the use of steel frames by General Motors (Mazzucato,
2002). However, as time goes by the level of radical developments and innovations reduces and more are staged innovation, developing and building on existing technology, making smaller changes or adopting
former innovations, for example, the concept of a four wheel drive vehicle was seen at first in 1924, and 70 years later in 1994 it is only limited availability, but
today they are fairly common (Mazzucato, 2002). This does not mean innovation cannot occur but that it is less likely, for example, after the second world war, at a
time we are saying radical innovation is becoming rare and most innovation is incremental there was a major radical innovations at Toyota ion Japan., wit the development of lean manufacturing
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