CHAPTER SEVEN
Discovering New and Emerging Markets
Markets that do not exist cannot be analyzed: Suppliers and customers must discover them together. Not only are the market applications for disruptive technologies unknown at the time of their development, they are unknowable. The strategies and plans that managers formulate for confronting disruptive technological change, therefore, should be plans for learning and discovery rather than plans for execution. This is an important point to understand, because managers who believe they know a marketâs future will plan and invest very differently from those who recognize the uncertainties of a ...
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