Footnote
1 www.urenio.org/tools/en/Product_Life_Cycle_Management
2 Roger Smith, ed. Inventions and Inventors (Salem Press, Inc., 2002).
3 Jed Margolin, The Road to the Transistor, Copyright 1993, 2001, 2004, www.jmargolin.com/history/trans.htm.
4 Annual Reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, Report of George O. Squier, Major General, Chief Signal Officer of the Army, October 15, 1919, p. 1145-48, http://earlyradiohistory.us/1919war.htm.
5 Lisa Mirabile, ed., International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. II, (Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1990).
6 19th Annual Report, Radio Corporation of America, December 31, 1938.
7 Time magazine, July 12, 1948.
8 Television History - The First 75 Years, www.tvhistory.tv/Annual_TV_Sales_39-59.jpg.
9 George Rostky, CMOS ICs: Impossible to Manufacture, www.eetimes.com/special/special_issues/millennium/milestones/medwin.html.
10 Byron Brown, An Essay on Technical Change – and a Timely Escape, September 1997, http://clcgi.cl.msu.edu/~brownb/ec201/essay1.htm.
11 The Workforce Crisis: New Challenges Facing Small Business, www.cose.org/PDF/WLA/New_Challenges.pdf.
12 Jay Paap and Ralph Katz, "Anticipating Disruptive Innovation," accepted for publication, Research Technology Management, Summer 2004, www.jaypaap.com/articles/ Anticipating%20Disruptive%20Innovation-Pre%20press-A4.pdf.
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b - Don Clausing, Total Quality Development-A Step-by-Step Guide to World-Class Concurrent Engineering (The American Society for Mechanical Engineers, 1993).
c - Lou Cohen, Quality Function Deployment (Addison-Wesley, 1995).
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15 Genrich Altshuller, The Innovation Algorithm, trans. Lev Shulyak and Steven Rodman (Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 2000).
16 Genrich Altshuller, 40 Principles: TRIZ Keys to Technical Innovation., trans. Lev Shulyak and Steven Rodman (Technical Innovation Center, Inc., 2002).
17 Robert G. Cooper, Winning at New Products, 3rd ed. (Perseus Publishing, 2001).