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Grappling with Innovation

2007· article· en· W1501695045 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueResearch-Technology Management · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicInnovation and Knowledge Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnthusiasmProduct (mathematics)BusinessPopulationResource (disambiguation)New product developmentMarketingEconomyEconomicsSociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Product innovation is alive and well in Australia. There was overwhelming support for and interest in the topic, as evidenced by the large crowds we had at the various events on our recent tour; attendees were bubbling with enthusiasm when they spoke about their companies, their innovation activities, and their new product successes. Australia has the good fortune of being a Western-style, English-speaking economy, and has many international firms operating there; thus, Australia is well plugged into the methods, practices and thinking in terms of innovation management that we are familiar with in North America. But the country is also sufficiently geographically isolated that it has developed a certain degree of independence from other Western countries, and so it has many home-grown products that are not simply copies or imported designs or concepts from a sister or parent company (for example, GM and Ford both develop unique cars locally in Australia, and Australian winemakers have been particularly innovative in recent years, both in terms of product development and marketing). In many respects, Australia resembles Canada more than the United States when it comes to product development. It is a large country with a relatively small population, concentrated largely in a handful of coastal cities. It is a resource-rich and hence largely resource-based economy, and thus, not surprisingly, spends relatively less on RD minerals and steel; forestry products; and the like. And like Canada, Australia tends to lag the U.S. in terms of adoption of new management techniques. Many companies had only been recently introduced to new-product portfolio management, and even idea-to-launch processes (such as my Stage-Gate system) were a novelty to many. Five Major Themes Perhaps the greatest insights of the tour came from the intense breakout sessions we ran as part of our events. Their purpose was to identify the major problems, challenges and issues faced by Australian companies in product innovation. Five major themes emerged from these sessions, which were attended by almost 200 directors and managers--in R&D, new product development and marketing--from over 80 companies: 1. A lack of understanding and commitment from the top.--Machoism is flourishing in Australia. A very common theme across almost all companies was that there are too many executive pet projects--projects driven by some senior executive, no matter how bad the project is! Senior management does not really understand its role in leading the NPD effort. Additionally, in too many Australian firms, senior management is not really committed to NPD, has failed to lead the development of an innovation strategy for the business, and suffers from a short-term and immediate-profits focus. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.903
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0080.014
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.056
GPT teacher head0.334
Teacher spread0.278 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it