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disruptive innovation

technological innovation that creates a new market and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances
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disruptive innovation

Summary

disruptive innovation has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • disruptive innovation is credited with the discovery of Clayton Christensen[2].
  • disruptive innovation is a type of innovation[3].
  • disruptive innovation's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1995[4].
  • disruptive innovation's facet of is recorded as strategic management[5].
  • disruptive innovation's partially coincident with is recorded as creative disruption[6].
  • disruptive innovation's has effect is recorded as disruption[7].
  • disruptive innovation's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[8].

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Definition and Type

disruptive innovation is a type of innovation[3].

Why It Matters

disruptive innovation has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

innovation

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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 29d ago · Remo Prinz · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has effect → disruption
    Described at url → https://verwaltungsrats-lexikon.vrmandat.com/disruption/
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