A cross-generation framework for deriving next generation innovation process model

The "chain-linked model" proposed by S. Kline in 1985, which gave a great impact on the science and technology policy and corporate technology management, denied the "linear model" of innovation, which had been accepted for many years. Those two models have been interpreted as dichotomous to each other in the sense that the first is a technology-push model and the second is a market-pull model. A cross-generational synthetic framework, which is newly introduced here for understanding those innovation processes, suggests that the second Kline model actually takes the place of the first linear model as the market grows mature. This framework next derives the "market experiment" model in which a new product or service can be detected only by making experiments in the real market. Further, it suggests a "market creation" model in which new products and services are created in the market by interactive synergy among consumers and producers. Those future innovation models manifest a new type of technologist to be called "Techno-Producer", who plays the important role as an innovator in a highly advanced technological knowledge-flow platform infrastructure well designed for such a complex future innovation processes. Creating new innovations is one of the most critical issues which confront a country and an enterprise in keeping to keep competitiveness. At the beginning of the 21st Century, here is introduced a new concept of "symbiotic competitiveness" based on the word of the late Hiroshi Inose, a distinguished leader of science and technology research and policy in Japan.