Sydney Water, a statutory corporation responsible for capturing, storing, treating, and reticulating Sydney's water, has contracted for privately built, owned, and operated (BOO) treatment plants. By the end of the century, these plants will treat almost all the drinking water consumed in...

In this article we discuss the concept of Discontinuous Innovation (DI) and how it differs from incremental (or steady-state) innovation. We propose a model to conceptualise the different aspects of DI and discuss the complex nature of the DI process through an investigation of previous...