BiF-4 Insights – Terry Pierce – Office of Homeland Security
November 5, 2008 / /
HSARPA – 10% of budget in disruptive innovation
- Disruptive Innovation Group
- Air Force Academy
- 4,000 Bachelor of Science (B.S.) students
- They do social networking
- World of Warcraft and coordinating 16-17 people to attack a Dragon
- Flexible distributed control
- Multiple people getting the same information at the same time (working with Cisco)
LCD TV Case Study:
- We invent radical technology and build things, but don’t always implement them
- We don’t do a great job of imagining all the ways the technology can be used
Liquid Crystal:
- Discovered in 1888
- In 1968 RCA developed LCD’s
- Went on TV to disclose invention
- Subsequently put into solid state division within RCA
- RCA kills project
- Sharp wants to buy, but RCA says no
- Sharp then does 15 years of research and forms a secret company inside Sharp
We have things that will kill core competencies of some our organizations
- Challenge to us as a society how and when to commercialize some of our technologies in the national interests
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