Thinking about technology
Subtitle: applying a cognitive lens to technical change
By: Sarah Kaplan, Mary Tripsas
Contributors: Tripsas, Mary; Harvard Business School
Edition: 2nd rev.
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 04-039; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 04-039
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Description: We apply a cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across the life cycle. We develop a coevolutionary model of technological frames and technical change to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design is achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. We show that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies.
Notes: "August 2007"--Added t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.