IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/ijimxx/v04y2000i02ns1363919600000147.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Reaching The Next Generation Of Technology: Benchmarking "Outside The Sector" In R&D

Author

Listed:
  • ROBIN HIRSCH

    (Senior Associate, Railway Technology Strategy Centre, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2BU, UK;
    Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Research in Information Systems, Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KTQ 2EE, UK)

Abstract

Starting from an applied research study on behalf of British Rail, this article then describes how multi-sector trend analysis can help to anticipate change in any industry and in searching for paradigms to assist in looking "outside the box" of one's own sector's progress in R&D. It points to the importance of choosing sectors with longer and steeper learning curves, suggests how to identify such sectors, and the degree to which cross-sector lessons may be applicable. It describes certain general trends in R&D, and an implication of the increasing speed in disseminating ideas, especially with the growth of the Internet.

Suggested Citation

  • Robin Hirsch, 2000. "Reaching The Next Generation Of Technology: Benchmarking "Outside The Sector" In R&D," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 4(02), pages 207-228.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:04:y:2000:i:02:n:s1363919600000147
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919600000147
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1363919600000147
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S1363919600000147?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:04:y:2000:i:02:n:s1363919600000147. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijim/ijim.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.