Principles, Processes, and Models of Technological Innovation Evolution

Author: Mao Jianqi
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book studies the evolutionary process and laws of technological innovation from a historical perspective, placing technological innovation in the context of history and systematically analyzing its evolutionary process as a system. Upon close reading, one discovers many innovative aspects of this book: First, it comprehensively elaborates on the composition and characteristics of the technological innovation system; Second, it proposes that the underlying factors of technological innovation are composed of knowledge, information, technical elements, and cognitive factors, whose interactions lead to the emergence of technological innovation; Third, it analyzes the driving forces of technological innovation evolution from aspects such as market selection, factor interactions, innovative individuals, individual-environment interactions, competitive synergy, and random fluctuations; Fourth, it proposes evolutionary models of technological innovation, including spiral evolution, genetic evolution, mutation and mutation, chaos, etc. Finally, it analyzes the composition of the external environment of technological innovation and its co-evolutionary mechanism with technological innovation, revealing that the success or failure of technological innovation is essentially a market selection process. At the same time, the author applies this analytical framework to the evolutionary development of coal mining technology. This not only enriches the theory of technological innovation but is also very helpful for enterprises engaged in technological innovation management. The pioneering work of the author in this new field holds significant theoretical and practical value. The book elaborates on the evolutionary process of technological innovation and the complexity of the technological innovation system, discussing the theoretical foundation, evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary pathways, evolutionary maps, and evolutionary models of technological innovation.