What is disruptive innovation

Disruptive innovation is the introduction of a new technology, product or service that facilitates change and gives an advantage over the competition in the marketplace. In this context, "disruptive" does not mean interruption or disruption, but rather substitution.

In business, disruptive innovation carries a certain amount of risk because it requires employees to quickly adapt to different methods of production, development, or marketing. Often, for well-thought-out products, disruptive changes seem to begin to disrupt their setup.

But they can demonstrate their ability to create new market opportunities that have never existed before. Today's disruptive innovations include cell phones, digital cameras and electronic digital readers.

Disruptive innovation sometimes conflicts with the concept of continuous improvement. Continuous improvement focuses on accomplishing small to medium incremental changes in a process with the goal of increasing efficiency and quality.

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Experts: Cultivate "disruptive innovation" to realize the curved road to overtake the car

Scientific and technological people generally said that China's technological innovation originality is not strong The problem of originality in China's technological innovation persists, and the pattern of core technology constraints in key areas has not been fundamentally changed.

Many important industries are lagging behind in the level of manufacturing equipment, manufacturing processes and basic materials. In this case, China how to realize the "transformation" and "bend the road to overtake" is a question worthy of deep thought.

Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher He Li, BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. chairman Wang Dongsheng and other people believe that, looking at the domestic and foreign industry and market development history.

There is indeed a kind of "disruptive innovation" with non-continuous characteristics, that is, new products or services to replace traditional products or services, and produce revolutionary changes in related fields, such as digital chips to replace the traditional photographic film.

They believe that in the past, most Chinese companies adopted imitative innovation: after the introduction of advanced foreign technology, domestic companies started to imitate low-end products, gradually improved technology and quality, and then expanded their market share.

Chinese companies can no longer be satisfied with this kind of imitative innovation, but must do everything possible to promote "disruptive innovation. For the country, it is important to research and nurture "disruptive innovation".

It will help our country to seize the new heights of scientific and technological economic development, and then realize the innovative development idea of "cutting corners and taking the straight and narrow". To this end, He Li and other scholars suggest that the cultivation of "disruptive innovation" be organically combined with the preparation of future industrial planning:

On the one hand, the combination of industrial development planning and scientific and technological development planning should be used to predict and evaluate potential "disruptive innovations" and their potential revolutionary capabilities, so as to ensure that the future development of China's economy will not be affected by any disruptive innovations.

On the one hand, we predict and assess the potential "disruptive innovations" in the future in combination with the industrial development plan and the science and technology development plan, as well as their revolutionary capabilities and major constraints;

On the other hand, we study and analyze the results of the projects of the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the 863 Program, the 973 Program, and the National Science and Technology Major Special Projects (NSTMSPs). and analyze the subversive applications that may be brought about by these results. On this basis, the formation of a roadmap for the development of disruptive technologies and special arrangements to amplify the benefits of existing science and technology planning.

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