Market demand driving innovation

Consumer complaints

Technology development pushing innovation forward

Government regulations

Declines steadily

Improves linearly over time

Follows exponential growth forever

Improves slowly at first, accelerates, and eventually plateaus

A dominant technological framework guiding innovation

A marketing strategy

A financial model

A type of organisational structure

The discovery of scientific knowledge

The creation of patents

The invention of a new idea

The successful commercial application of new ideas

Marketing demand patterns

Seasonal consumer cycles

Daily stock market fluctuations

Long-term economic cycles associated with major technological change