Institutional support can play an important role in supplementing private investment in innovative activities, especially in latecomer countries. This prospect can be particularly challenging in nations not leading the technological frontier, which suffer from higher resource scarcity than...

Commercializing an emerging technology that employs an immature production process can be challenging, particularly when there are many different sources of uncertainty. In industries with stringent safety requirement, regulatory interventions that ensure safety while maintaining incentives for...

The invention and adoption of new manufacturing technologies is arguably critical to maintaining national competitiveness in civil and military aviation. We identify two intertwined problems facing policymakers who seek to expedite adoption of metallic additive manufacturing (MAM) in aviation...

The essential cause of the ‘Valley of Death' is the reluctance of the private sector to invest in technologies which are perceived as too risky. This risk has usually been assessed in terms of technology maturity. However, uncertainty about whether a new product or technology complies with...

The introduction of emerging manufacturing technologies is often hindered by a lack of complementary engineering tools. These manufacturing-enabling technologies (MET) help establish robust quality control procedures and accelerate the design and testing phases. Firms innovating the emerging...

We conduct a techno-economic analysis of Li-ion NMC-G prismatic pouch battery and pack designs for electric vehicle applications. We develop models of power capability and manufacturing operations to identify the minimum cost cell and pack designs for a variety of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle...

There are a large number of accounts about rapidly declining costs of batteries with potentially transformative effects, but these accounts often are not based on detailed design and technical information. Using a method ideally suited for that purpose, we find that when experts are free to...

Increasingly, the Holy Grail in manufacturing is the ability to combine the flexibility of customized production with the efficiency of mass production to achieve “mass customization.” Our research has identified an innovative method of customized manufacturing in an unlikely place –...

From its 1958 origin in defense, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) model for research funding has, in the last two decades, spread to other parts of the US federal government with the goal of developing radically new technologies. In this paper, we propose that the key elements of the...

Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...