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disruptive innovation
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technological innovation that creates a new market and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances
Research
24,648 papers- Disruptive innovation in psychiatry.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022
- Innovation and disruptive science determine the future of cardiothoracic surgery.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2024
- The Importance of Disruptive Innovation in the Allergy Immunology Clinic.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2025
- ChatGPT: A disruptive innovation or disrupting innovation in academia?Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2023
- Disruptive Innovation Can Prevent the Next Pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2015
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- innovation
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- discoverer or inventor
- Clayton Christensen
- time of discovery or invention
- 1995-00-00
- facet of
- strategic management
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Encyclopedic overview
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In business theory, disruptive innovation is innovation that creates a new market and value network or enters at the bottom of an existing market and eventually displaces established market-leading firms, products, and alliances. In theory, disruptive innovation makes it hard for leading firms to stay at the top of their industry. The term, "disruptive innovation" was popularized by the American academic Clayton Christensen and his collaborators beginning in 1995.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “disruptive innovation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.