Technology Breakthrough and Mutability Management: Market Disruption with Disruptive Innovation

1. Introduction: Towards Emerging Market Disruption

With USD 1,313,457 millions of high-technology exports in high income countries and USD 467,925 millions in low and middle-income countries, the divide between advanced technology and innovation-driven countries and those who are less advanced is obvious (World Bank, 2010: 342). At the level of countries, the present gap, which is in the process of being reduced with emerging countries, may become a structural constraint for countries unable to generate and promote more breakthrough and disruptive technologies. The delocalization process benefiting countries such as China or India did not take place in Nigeria or Côte d’Ivoire (see Table 1). The issue of technology solidarity may need to be brought at the top of the development and cooperation agenda.