Competitive Inteligence 2.0: Organization, Innovation and Territory

Introduction¹

From the recognition of the disciplinary field of competitive intelligence in the 1990s to the emergence of Competitive Intelligence 2.0, we have witnessed and contributed to the development of tools, practices, and new theoretical approaches based on the current well-established paradigm of “many-to-many” communication. This book is part of the studies conducted by a team, where the team is endowed with 20 years of observations and experiments, from the creation of the first postgraduate degree course dedicated to information (for the benefit of decision-making) in 1989, to the creation of a Research Laboratory 2.0 “Lab4u” in 2009. The “2.0” concept calls thenceforth for the emergence of a new emanticipated Web model with applications in all areas of social activity: management, innovation, education, organization, territorial planning, etc. This book aims to examine the implications of this paradigm shift on competitive intelligence and propose research perspectives.

In the beginning there were semiconductors…

Moore’s conjecture in the 1960s described the evolution of semiconductor capability, which doubles each year at a constant cost. Machrone’s economic law later indicated that the price of a computer was still, in effect, determined by the consumer irrespective of changes in its technical capabilities. Despite the limitations and contestations witnessed by these economic models, we could, however, observe a continuous increase in the capacity of equipment ...