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Both Biological and Technology development processes have evolutionary nature and have some similarities. This paper examines the extent of similarities between the two and concludes that the similarity does not go very far. The Technological processes are controlled by the concurrent knowledge base of the development team, whereas biological processes depend upon the internal cell mutations, which depend upon the available environment. The working legacy of the organization controls its strengths, weaknesses and the entrepreneurial spirit, thus profoundly influencing its growth aspirations. Unlike biological processes, though the process of technological innovations is recursive in nature and continuous improvements in both product and processes occur. The biological evolutionary process however yields information for better understanding of the parts played by legacy of the organization and exploitation of available growth potentialities.
Keywords : Innovation, Innovation Management, Genotype, Phenotype, Evolutionary processes, and Industrial innovation
Introduction
Technological processes are similar to biological processes in many respects and are evolutionary in nature. The technology evolution is carried out through scientific research and developing working and operating procedures and services for developing new products and services. This methodology involves defining working processes and operating procedures for delivering products and services and also simplifications in prevalent working procedures within the constraints of time and available resources. The result appears in the form of development of some product or introduction of some new product or simplified procedure. In this age of industrial revolution, innovation in industrial activities has acquired utmost importance and no enterprise can survive without innovating its products and services.
Innovation is a dynamic process1 and its application to business greatly influences the enterprise behavior-pattern and market deliverables in terms of products, processes, materials, and services. It depends on the enterprises' dynamics controlled by enterprise' resources, its market economics, employees, and the consuming society. Organization's technology development policies, its culture, structure and practices can effectively enhance the innovativeness of an existing enterprise.
Biological v/s Technological Evolutionary Processes
The biological evolutionary process is explained by the conceptual foundation of gene, which was laid down by Wilhelm Johannsen9. Johannsen defined two types of genes - the genotypes and phenotypes. The genetic information about a particular part of an organism is called its genotype. The appearance of organism due to presence...