| Organizational Dynamics and the Evolutionary Dilemma between Diversity and Standardization in Mission-Oriented Research Programmes: An illustration (1998) | |||||||||||||||
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| The American NASP programme --- National Aero Space Plane --- is a good illustration of the evolutionary dilemma between variety and standardization in the management of mission-oriented R&D. This dilemma relates to the trade-off between the need to explore the technological diversity in order to avoid the risk of being lockedin on the wrong technological option, and the need to share the knowledge produce through the experiments. In this regard, two main organizational designs can be considered: --- the mainlining » strategy gathering all the partners in an club », exploring the potential of one alternative, allowing the sharing of knowledge, and --- a network of simultaneous competing technological projects, allowing a synchronic exploration of the technological variety The NASP programme was dedicated to the design of radical technology innovation system, and then was basically characterized by a structural uncertainty arising from the structural change it involved in the technologi... | |||||||||||||||
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