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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda IEDP Reports: According to a 2009 piece of research by NYU Stern Professor Melissa Schilling geothermal energy has shown the greatest potential for delivering cheap alternative energy. But why do we never hear about geothermal opportunities, she asks? All the hot money is flowing into solar (particularly from high tech start-ups) and wind (particularly from the big engineering and existing energy companies). Why are they ploughing their cash into a technology strategy that is not optimal?
(PRWEB UK) 30 May 2012
IEDP Reports: According to a 2009 piece of research by NYU Stern Professor Melissa Schilling geothermal energy has shown the greatest potential for delivering cheap alternative energy. But why do we never hear about geothermal opportunities, she asks? All the hot money is flowing into solar (particularly from high tech start-ups) and wind (particularly from the big engineering and existing energy companies). Why are they ploughing their cash into a technology strategy that is not optimal?
The answer, is to understand the trajectories and dynamics of technology innovation. The standard approach is to view technology innovation via the S-Curve model, where an initially steep improvement in performance starts to tail-off as additional improvements to the technology have a more marginal gain for it. After a period of flat-lining a disruptive or discontinuous technological improvement can occur that once again creates a significant performance improvement and the product life-cycle takes on the classic S-Curve shape. The S-Curve model therefore describes the various key stages of a technology life-cycle, but it does not explain how or when or to what effect they will occur.
Or why some technologies do better than others. How, asks Schilling, did Apple and Google come to dominate the Smartphone market rather than existing industry giants like Microsoft or Nokia? “Innovation is all about motion” explains Schilling “technologies have trajectories and dynamics, moving through space and time.” For people looking to understand technology strategy it is important for them to be able to see what the drivers are that affect those trajectories.
Using her methodology, the initial data gathering and analysis of alternative energies’ relative potentials, led Schilling to examine why some technologies are more heavily invested in and promoted than others – and the discovery regarding geothermal’s potential. Applying some cognitive insight techniques Schilling explains how she realised that companies tend to invest in in technologies that are salient to them – so Silicon Valley high tech companies go for solar; and engineering and energy companies such as GE took the wind power path. Following this ‘salience’ trajectory she explored who would be in the best position to capitalise on technologies to benefit from geothermal – and the realisation that it is predominantly the oil and gas companies that have the foundation of technology and experience to exploit this resource. Having understood this dynamic, it was not perhaps the most complex of gamesmanship riddles to work out how much incentive they had to develop this technology and why the oil and gas giants were not pouring resources into this exploitation.
About the Author – Melissa Schilling is a professor of management at New York University Stern School of Business.
Professor Schilling has two primary research areas: knowledge creation and technological innovation. She has conducted research on learning curves, and cognitive insight and creativity. With respect to technological innovation, she has published numerous articles on new product development processes and standards battles in the personal computer, PDA and video game industries. Professor Schilling has been published in many journals and is author of the standard textbook ‘Strategic Management on Technological Innovation’.
About the Publisher – IEDP
IEDP is an independent publisher of specialist information for leaders and leadership development professionals in large organizations, focusing on the latest developments, ideas and best practice being delivered by the world’s premier business schools and consultancy firmss. Its free to access database helps companies select open courses, custom programs and top providers of executive development solutions. IEDP experts also advise companies on appropriate executive development options and strategies. In its ‘Developing Leaders’ magazine and through its blog posts IEDP publishes insightful articles from the thought leaders of the executive and leadership development world. Learn more at http://www.iedp.com
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