Manufacturology

Technological and service innovation

I feel that I should make a note about yes­ter­days post where I dis­cussed the impor­tance of tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion for industry.

Com­mer­cial­iz­able inno­va­tion is of course not lim­ited to tech­nol­ogy. Tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion is often an enabler for ser­vice inno­va­tion. New tech­nol­ogy trans­form the soci­ety in terms of infra­struc­ture and the way we inter­act with each other — new kinds of ser­vices are invented.

Nev­er­the­less, my opin­ion is that tech­nol­ogy is the most impor­tant kind of inno­va­tion since it is as said above an enabler for fur­ther ser­vice ori­ented innovation.

Of course, tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion is not lim­ited to the con­sumer side. New man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nolo­gies and mate­ri­als pro­cess­ing tech­nolo­gies improve the pro­duc­tiv­ity and energy effi­ciency of indus­tries thereby improv­ing our stan­dard of living.

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