Microprocessor Applications - Cases and Observations

Co-authored by Robert T. Lund, Marvin A. Sirbu, Jr., James M. Utterback with Michael J. Brand, Matthew L. Lazarewicz, Clinton S. Stanovsky,
John C. Stewart
London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1980

Technological Innovation for a Dynamic Economy

Co-authored by Christopher T. Hill and James M. Utterback (eds.),
New York: Pergamon Press, 1979

Innovation

Christopher T. Hill and James M. Utterback (eds.), Technological Innovation for a Dynamic Economy, New York: Pergamon Press, 1979. Author of Chapters 2
and 9, pp. 40-65 and 318-330.

Robert T. Lund, Marvin A. Sirbu, Jr., James M. Utterback with Michael J. Brand, Matthew L. Lazarewicz, Clinton S. Stanovsky, John C. Stewart, Microprocessor Applications - Cases and Observations, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1980. Author of Chapters 8 and 10, pp. 125-134 and 150-166.

James M. Utterback, “The Process of Technological Innovation Within the Firm,” Academy of Management Journal, Vol. XIV, March 1971, pp. 75-88.

James M. Utterback, “The Process of Innovation: A Review of Some Recent Findings,” in George A. Wilson (ed.), Technological Development and Economic Growth, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Graduate School of Business, Division of Research, 1971, pp. 139-160.

James M. Utterback, “The Process of Innovation: A Study of the Origination and Development of Ideas for New Scientific Instruments,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. EM-18, No. 4, November 1971, pp. 124-131.

James M. Utterback, “Innovation and the Diffusion of Technology,” Science, Vol. 183, No. 4125, February 1974, pp. 620-626.

James M. Utterback, “Successful Industrial Innovation: A Multivariate Analysis,” Decision Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1975, pp. 65-77.

James M. Utterback, Thomas J. Allen, J. Herbert Hollomon, and Marvin A. Sirbu, Jr., “The Process of Innovation in Five Industries in Europe and Japan,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. EM-23, No. 1, Feb 1976, pp. 3-9.

Adoption and Diffusion of Innovation

Charles R. O’Neal, Hans B. Thorelli, and James M. Utterback, “Adoption of Innovations by Industrial Organizations,” Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 2, 1973, pp. 235-250.

Henry Montrey and James Utterback, “Current Status and Future of Structural Panels in the Wood Products Industry,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 1990, pp. 15-35.

Carl W. I. Pistorius and James M. Utterback, “The Death Knells of Mature Technologies,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 50, 1995, pp. 133-151.

Carl W. I. Pistorius and James M. Utterback, “A Lotka-Volterra Model for Multi-Mode Technological Interaction,” Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Management of Technology, The University of Miami, February 1996, Pp. 62-71.

Carl W. I. Pistorius and James M. Utterback, “Multi-Mode Interaction Among Technologies,” Research Policy, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 1997, pp. 67-84.

Communication and Organization

Robert L. Taylor and James M. Utterback, “A Longitudinal Study of Communication in Research: Technical and Managerial Influences,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. EM-22, No. 2, May 1975, pp. 80-87.

Yar M. Ebadi and James M. Utterback, “The Effects of Communication on Technology Innovation,” Management Science, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1984, pp. 572-585.

James W. Brown and James M. Utterback, “Uncertainty and Technical Communication Patterns,” Management Science, Vol. 31, No. 3, March 1985, pp. 301-311.

Innovation in Developing Economies

James M. Utterback, “The Role of Applied Research Institutes in the Transfer of Technology to Latin America,” World Development, Vol. 3, No. 6, September 1975, pp. 665-673.

Ghirardi, Andre, Moyses Pluciennik and James M. Utterback, Characteristics of Technological change in the Sao Paulo Firm, Center for Policy Alternatives, unpublished research report CPA-76-11, April 1976, 88 pp.

Linsu Kim and James M. Utterback, “The Evolution of Organizational Structure and Technology in a Developing Country,” Management Science, Vol. 29, No. 10, October 1983, pp. 1185-1197.

The Dynamics of Innovation in Firms and Industries

James M. Utterback and William J. Abernathy, “A Dynamic Model of Product and Process Innovation,” Omega, Vol. 3, No. 6, 1975, pp. 639-656.

William J. Abernathy and James M. Utterback, “Patterns of Innovation in Industry,” Technology Review, Vol. 80, No. 7, June-July 1978, pp. 40-47.

James M. Utterback and Teresa Nolet, “Product and Process Change in Non-Assembled Product Industries,” unpublished working paper CPA/wp-78-12, September 18, 1978, 34pp.

William Abernathy, Joan Dopico, Burton Klein, and James Utterback, “A Dynamic Approach to the Problems of the Automobile Industry,” Future of the Automobile Program, unpublished working paper Center for Transportation Studies, M.I.T., US-B-81-3, June 1981.

James M. Utterback and Linsu Kim, “Innovation and the Evolving Structure of the Firm: A Framework for Technology Policy,” paper presented at the conference Management of Technological Innovation: Facing the Challenge of the 1980’s, National Science Foundation, May 12-13, 1983, Washington, DC, pp. 128-138.

James M. Utterback and Linsu Kim, “Invasion of a Stable Business by Radical Innovation,” in Paul Kleindorfer (ed.), The Management of Productivity and Technology in Manufacturing, New York: Plenum Press, 1986, pp. 113-151.

James M. Utterback and Linsu Kim, “Invasion of a Stable Business by Radical Innovation,” Asian Economies, No. 69, Seoul, Korea: Research Institute of Asian Economies, June 1989, pp. 5-39.

Alan Afuah and James Utterback, “The Emergence of a New Supercomputer Architecture,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 40, No. 4, December 1991, Pp. 315-328.

James M. Utterback and Fernando F. Suárez, “Innovation, Competition and Industry Structure,” Research Policy, Vol. 22, No. 1, February, 1993, pp. 1-21.

James M. Utterback, Mastering The Dynamics of Innovation, Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard University Business School Press, 1994. Paperback 1996.

James M. Utterback, “Developing Technologies: the Eastman Kodak Story,” The McKinsey Quarterly, 1995, No. 1, pp. 131-143.

Fernando F. Suárez and James M. Utterback, “Dominant Designs and the Survival of Firms,” Strategic Management Journal, 16, 1995, pp. 415-430.

James M. Utterback and Fernando F. Suárez, “Patterns of Industrial Evolution, Dominant Designs, and Firms’ Survival,” in Robert Burgelman and Richard Rosenbloom (eds.) Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy, Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, Volume 6, 1993, pp. 47-87.

Clayton M. Christensen, Fernando F. Suárez and James M. Utterback, “Strategies for Survival in Fast-Changing Industries,” Management Science, V ol. 44, No. 12, December 1998, pp. S207-S220.

James M. Utterback and Happy J. Acee, “Beyond Disruptive Technology,” International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 1-17.

James M. Utterback and Happy J. Acee, “Nano-technology: a Disruptive Technology?” presented the MIT ESD Internal Symposium, “Engineering Systems Research and Practice,” Cambridge, MA, May 29-30, 2003, Pp. 513-526.

James M. Utterback and Happy J. Acee, “Disruptive Technology,” presented at a Conference in Honour of Keith Pavitt, “What Do We Know About Innovation,” The Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, November 13-15, 2003. To be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Innovation Management.

Anticipating Technological Change

James M. Utterback and James W. Brown, “Monitoring for Technological Opportunities,” Business Horizons, October 1972, pp. 5-15.

James M. Utterback and Elmer H. Burack, “Identification of Technological Threats and Opportunities by Firms,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 8, 1975, pp. 7-21.

James M. Utterback, “Environmental Analysis and Forecasting,” in Dan Schendel and Charles Hofer (eds.), Business Policy and Planning: A New View, Boston, Massachusetts: Little-Brown and Co., 1978, pp. 134-143.

James M. Utterback, “The Dynamics of Innovation,” in The Internet and the University, Aspen Institute Forum 2002, Educause, Pp. 81-103. Published in 2003.

Innovation in New Firms and Growing Industries

James M. Utterback, Göran Reitberger, Andrew Martin, Marc Meyer, and Junco Norton, Technology and Industrial Innovation in Sweden: A Study of New Technology-Based Firms, unpublished research report CPA-82-6/A, May 1982, 116 pp.

James M. Utterback, Göran Reitberger, and Andrew Martin, “Technology and Industrial Innovation in Sweden,” in Karl Vesper (ed.), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Babson College, 1982, pp. 177-188.

James M. Utterback, “Industrial Innovation in Sweden: the Role of New Technology-Based Firms,” in Industrial Innovation Processes: Implications for Public Policy, Proceedings of the 1983 Conference on Industrial Science and Technological Innovation, National Science Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, May 2-4, 1983, pp. 148-150.

Edward Roberts, Marc Meyer, Andrew Martin, Dorothy Leonard-Barton, and James M. Utterback, “Comparison of New Technology-Based Firm Formation in Sweden and Massachusetts,” in J.A. Hornaday, J.A. Timmons, and K.H. Vesper (eds.), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Babson College, 1983, pp. 519-528.

Lynn Bollinger, Katherine Hope, and James M. Utterback, “A Review of Literature and Hypotheses on New Technology-Based Firms,” Research Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, February 1983, pp. 1-14.

James M. Utterback, Marc Meyer, Edward Roberts, and Göran Reitberger, “Technology and Industrial Innovation in Sweden: A Study of Technology-Based Firms Formed Between 1965 and 1980,” Research Policy, Vol. 17, 1988, pp. 15-26.

James M. Utterback, “Sweden’s Condition and Advantages in Creating New Technology-Based Enterprises and Products,” special OECD meeting on Technology and Investment, Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences and the OECD, Stockholm, Sweden, January 1990.

Corporate Strategy, Innovation and Renewal

James M. Utterback, “Innovation and Corporate Strategy,” International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1986, pp. 119-132.

James M. Utterback, “Corporate Renewal,” International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 4, No. 6, 1989, pp. 625-630.

Allan N. Afuah and James M. Utterback, “Responding to Structural Industry Changes: A Technological Evolution Perspective,” To appear in a special issue of Industrial and Corporate Change on 1997, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 183-202.

James M. Utterback and Allan N. Afuah, “The Dynamic ‘Diamond’: A Technological Innovation Perspective,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology Winter 1998, Vol. 6, Pp. 183-199.

Allan N. Afuah and James M. Utterback, “Sources of Innovative Environments: a Technological Evolution Perspective,” In Zoltan J. Acs (Ed.), Regional Innovation, Knowledge and Global Change, London: Pinter Publishers, 2000, Pp. 169-186.

Product and Process Design and Development

James Utterback, Marc Meyer, Timothy Tuff and Lisa Richardson, “When Speeding Concepts to Market Can Be A Mistake,” TIMS Interfaces, Vol. 22, No. 4, July-August 1992, pp. 7-13.

Marc H. Meyer and James M. Utterback, “The Product Family and the Dynamics of Core Capability,” Sloan Management Review, Vol. 34, No. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 29-47.

Marc H. Meyer and James M. Utterback, “Product Development Cycle Time and Commercial Success,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1995, pp. 297-304.

Marc H. Meyer, Peter Tertzakian and James M. Utterback, “Metrics for Managing Product Development,” Management Science, Vol. 43, No. 1, Jan 1997, pp. 88-111.

Jonell Kerkhoff, Thomas Eagar and James Utterback, "A Systematic Strategy for Optimizing Manufacturing Operations," Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 67-85.

Innovation and Public Policy

Center for Policy Alternatives, National Support for Science and Technology: An Examination of Foreign Experience, Vol. 1, unpublished research report CPA/75-12-V.1, August 18, 1975. (Distributed May 15, 1976), 960 pp.

James M. Utterback, Daniel Rich, and Marvin Sirbu, Jr., Strategic Alternatives for Energy Conservation, unpublished research report CPA-77-1, February 1977, 40 pp.

J. Herbert Hollomon, James M. Utterback, Blair M. McGugan, and Linsu Kim, An Analysis of the Potential Commercial and Foreign Trade Impacts of the Sea Grant Program, unpublished research report CPA-77-2, March 1977, revised April 15, 1977, 102 pp.

James M. Utterback and Albert E. Murray, The Influence of Defense Procurement and Sponsorship of Research and Development on the Development of the Civilian Electronics Industry, unpublished research report CPA-77-5, June 30, 1977, 55 pp.

J. Herbert Hollomon, Byron F. Battle, Linsu Kim, Blair McGugan, and James M. Utterback, An Analysis of Program Development Procedures and Transfer Mechanisms Affecting the Commercial Application of Technologies Developed Under the National Sea Grant Program, unpublished research report CPA-77-10, November 1977, 70 pp.

Center for Policy Alternatives, Government Involvement in the Innovation Process: Policy Implications, unpublished research report CPA-78-4, March 1, 1978, 24 pp.

James M. Utterback, Linsu Kim, and Paul Horwitz, Government Involvement in the Innovation Process: A Comparison of Selected Industry Experience, unpublished working paper CPA/wp-78-18, September 27, 1978, 12 pp.

Thomas J. Allen, James M. Utterback, Marvin A. Sirbu, Jr., Nicholas A. Ashford, and J. Herbert Hollomon, “Government Influence on the Process of Innovation in Europe and Japan,” Research Policy, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1978, pp. 124-149.

James M. Utterback, “Product and Process Innovation in a Changing Competitive Environment,” in Michael Baker, Industrial Innovation: Technology, Policy, Diffusion, London: MacMillan Press, 1979, pp. 135-147.

James M. Utterback, Linsu Kim, and Paul Horwitz, “Government Involvement in the Innovation Process: A Comparison of Selected Industry Experiences,” unpublished working paper CPA wp-78-18, September 27, 1978, 12pp.

J. Herbert Hollomon, et al., “Government and the Innovation Process,” Technology Review, Vol. 81, No. 6, May 1979, pp. 30-41.

James M. Utterback, “Innovation in American Industry: What Went Wrong?” The Center Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 6, November/December 1979, pp. 17-24.

Christopher T. Hill and James M. Utterback, “The Dynamics of Product and Process Innovation,” Management Review, January 1980, pp. 14-20.

James M. Utterback, “Systems of Innovation: MACRO/MICRO,” in W. Novis Smith and Charles F. Larson (eds.), Innovation and U. S. Research, Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, No. 129, 1980, pp. 73-94.

James M. Utterback and Margaret Linskey, A Reevaluation in 1981 of the Commercial Use of Sea Grant Projects Funded in 1975, unpublished research report CPA-82-12, August 1982. 36 pp.

Sarah Slaughter and James Utterback, “U.S. Research and Development: an International Comparative Analysis,” Business in the Contemporary World, Winter 1990, pp. 27-34.

Chapters Reprinted or Translated in Edited Volumes

James M. Utterback, “The Process of Technological Innovation Within the Firm,” in Lloyd A. Rowe and William B. Boise (eds.), Organizational and Managerial Innovation: A Reader, Pasadena, California: Goodyear Publishing Company, Inc., 1973, pp. 241-252. (Reprinted from Academy of Management Journal)

James M. Utterback, “Innowacje w przemysle a upowszechnianie techniki,” Przeglad Zagadnien, Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa, Vol. 3, No. 39, 1974, pp. 416-438. (Translated and reprinted from Science)

James M. Utterback, “Recent Findings and Hypotheses About the Dynamics of Product and Process Change,” in Karl A. Stroetmann (ed.), Innovation, Economic Change, and Technology Policies, Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag, 1977, pp. 251-265 (reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management).

James M. Utterback, “Management of Technology,” in Arnoldo Hax (ed.), Studies in Operations Management, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1978, pp. 137-160.

James M. Utterback, “A General Model: Innovation and Process Change in a Productive Unit,” (with William J. Abernathy) in Abernathy, William J., The Productivity Dilemma: Roadblock to Change in the Auto Industry, Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 1978, pp. 68-87 and pp. 147-182.

James M. Utterback, “Innovation in Industry and the Diffusion of Technology,” in M. L. Tushman and W. L. Moore, Readings in the Management of Technology, Ballinger: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, pp. 29-41. (Reprinted from Science)

James M. Utterback, “Patterns of Industrial Innovation,” in M. L. Tushman and W. L. Moore, Readings in the Management of Technology, Ballinger: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, pp. 97-108. (Reprinted from Technology Review)

James M. Utterback, “Environmental Analysis and Forecasting,” in M. L. Tushman and W. L. Moore, Readings in the Management of Technology, Ballinger: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, pp. 299-310. (Reprinted from Schendel and Hofer, 1978)

J. Herbert Hollomon, et al..., “Government and the Innovation Process,” in M. L. Tushman and W. L. Moore, Readings in the Management of Technology, Ballinger: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, pp. 29-41. (Reprinted from Technology Review)

James M. Utterback, “Innovation and Industrial Evolution in Manufacturing Industries,” in Bruce R. Guile and Harvey Brooks (eds.) Technology and Global Industry: Companies and Nations in the World Economy, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Engineering - Series on Technology and Social Priorities, 1987, pp. 16-48.

Linsu Kim and James M. Utterback, “The Evolution of Organization Structure and Technology in a Developing Country,” in Dong-Ki Kim and Linsu Kim (eds.), Management behind Industrialization: Readings in Korean Business, Seoul, Korea: Korea University Press, 1989, Chapter 9, pp. 194-214.

James M. Utterback, “The Dynamics of Innovation,” in The Internet and the University, Aspen Institute Forum 2002, Educause, Pp. 81-103. Republished in Educause Review, January-February 2004, Pp. 42-51.