This document discusses innovation and dynamic efficiency. It defines innovation as putting new ideas into action, including product, process, and business model innovations. It also discusses Joseph Schumpeter's concept of "creative destruction" where innovation disrupts existing firms. The document then discusses the economic concept of supernormal profits driving firms to innovate and examples where newer firms use innovation to challenge industry leaders through new technologies and business models.
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What is Dynamic Efficiency
2. Google and Apple’s RevenueBasics of Dynamic Efficiency
Innovation is putting a new idea or approach into action. Innovation
is 'the commercially successful exploitation of ideas'
• Product innovation
• Small-scale and frequent subtle
changes to the characteristics
and performance of a good or a
service
• Process innovation
• Changes to the way in which
production takes place or is
organised
• Changes in business models and
pricing strategies
• Innovation has demand and supply-
side effects in markets and the
economy as a whole
Austrian economist
Joseph Schumpeter
(pictured) coined the
term creative
destruction which
refers to the
upheaval of the
established order in
the pursuit of
innovation.
Smaller disruptive
businesses often
challenge existing
firms with market
power!
3. Supernormal Profits & Dynamic Efficiency
MC
Price
and
Cost
Output
AC
MRProfit Max: MC=MR
P1
Q1
C1
Supernormal Profit
AR
4. Examples of Dynamic Efficiency
• May 2016 - MasterCard is to start trialing Pepper the
robot in Pizza Hut restaurants in Japan and the United
States
• May 2016 Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker
launches a $610 drone that undercuts market leader DJI
by almost 25 per cent.
• Dec 2015: Porsche to make electric sports car in €700m
project - aimed at challenging Tesla's dominance of the
battery-powered sports car market
• Dec 2015: Ford says it will invest $4.5bn (£3bn) to
expand its fleet of plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles,
and will start selling 13 new electric models by 2020.
• Nov 2015: Huawei reveals a new quick-charge battery