Managers introducing new products with advanced component technologies frequently face the dual task of managing both revenues and profits. This task is made challenging, in part, due to the tendency of new technologies to traverse a sequentially downward path of gradually lowering costs and...

Upstream technology and intellectual property plays an increasingly important role in emerging supply chains by endowing products with digital, data-networking, energy-storage and other sought-after capabilities. In such technology-intensive supply chains, intellectual property invented by an...

Supply chains in key growth industries increasingly commercialize a critical piece of technology invented by an upstream technology supplier. The focal technology is licensed to specialist design firms and designed into products, which are fabricated by dedicated large-scale manufacturers. We...