Yet the industry is seeing plenty of the long-term trends and disruptive technologies that create opportunities.
But by lowering barriers to entry, disruptive technologies create expanded opportunities for experimentation and innovation.
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Fortunately, a number of companies are turning to new disruptive technologies to help alleviate water's scarcity.
They do have a chance, though, of being one of the 21st century's disruptive technologies.
On the Innovation side, I am responsible for a small group that is primarily responsible for disruptive technologies.
But while disruptive technologies often start out looking dramatically inferior to incumbent technologies, this tends to change rapidly.
Thus do new and disruptive technologies, like those of the Internet, get funded, further goosing the American economy.
Disruptive technologies, including Big Data and also social were found to be powerful antidotes to this innovation deficiency malady.
If disruptive technologies were to threaten the existing order, and hence financial stability, regulators would probably throttle them.
Only in China can such ambitious plans for having disruptive technologies be implemented within this type of time period.
Then again, don't we often laugh off disruptive technologies when they first appear?
When the industry hesitates, resists, and delays, users take matters into their own hands, empowered by increasingly disruptive technologies.
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The best news is that unlike many disruptive technologies this one does not have any ridiculous barriers to entry.
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They have a point: disruptive technologies reconfigure old businesses and create new ones.
The Nortel duo relies on a "disruptive technologies" team to figure out where the next scientific surprise will come from.
Disruptive technologies cause market failures, but they also create new markets, often bigger and more robust than the ones they replace.
Electric vehicles represent a new category that Tesla could lead given that new entrants tend to win when disruptive technologies emerge.
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"Utility computing is one of those disruptive technologies that larger players won't be interested in until it gets big, " says Carr.
To expect Apple (or any company, for that matter) to introduce new disruptive technologies in short time periods is just lunacy.
We were able to find truly innovative ways to position disruptive technologies by following our intuition while conducting our market research.
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In 2008, analysts at Gartner recognised them as key to making augmented reality one of its top ten disruptive technologies by 2012.
Physic is looking to invest in disruptive technologies, leveraging their network of relationships with large companies to help entrepreneurs succeed more rapidly.
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To users of incumbent technologies, disruptive technologies almost always look like toys.
On this blog I'll cover my work, social innovation, disruptive technologies, government policy, common sense, strategy, the future of work and international entrepreneurship.
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Most of their clients are big businesses, however, and as disruptive technologies like Calltrunk's come along there is increasing pressure to reduce costs.
What we're seeing, even with technology developments like the iPad and the iPhone, is how new and disruptive technologies can take over established fields.
As a venture partner, it is his job to live at the forefront, the leading edge where the next new disruptive technologies are born.
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Disruptive technologies work by offering, at least initially, little in the way of performance, but plenty in terms of cheapness, convenience and ease of use.
Over time, like other disruptive technologies, Google Apps will get better.
The year 2012 has shown the pervasive business adoption of several disruptive technologies that can be grouped into four areas: social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC).
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