This paper has three goals. The first is to understand why members of one organizational department are blind to the reasons why members of another department do not share their ideas for a new technology, what I call a “technology concept.” The second is to understand what consequences this...

Today, in the midst of economic crisis, senior executives at U.S. automakers and influential industry analysts frequently reflect on the progression that safety testing has taken from the crude trials done on the road, to controlled laboratory experiments, and to today’s complex math-based...