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Identifying Disruptive Innovation: Innovation Theory and the Defense Industry


Peter Dombrowski


Strategic Research Department, Naval War College

Eugene Gholz


University of Texas - LBJ School of Public Affairs
Spring 2009

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2009

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This article improves Clayton Christensen's widely cited theory of innovation and applies it to explain recent developments in the U.S. defense industry. We clarify Christensen's categorization of innovations, and expand the theory's scope to products with multiple quality attributes and markets that have a 'demand pull' for innovation. We then demonstrate that military leaders have misdiagnosed the current wave of innovation by casually claiming that it is disruptive. These improvements to Christensen's theory could help improve military investment decisions.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 20

Keywords: disruptive innovation, technology management, military transformation, defense industry

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Date posted: July 8, 2009  

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Dombrowski, Peter and Gholz, Eugene, Identifying Disruptive Innovation: Innovation Theory and the Defense Industry (Spring 2009). Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1431506

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Peter Dombrowski
Strategic Research Department, Naval War College ( email )
686 Cushing Road
Newport, RI 02841
United States
Eugene Gholz (Contact Author)
University of Texas - LBJ School of Public Affairs ( email )
Austin, TX 78713
United States
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