title: Managing the integration of technologies. Development of the immunoassay.
abstract: Many factors, including cultural, economic, technical, and regulatory influences, affect how different technologies come together for today's medical diagnostic products. An analysis of the development of automated immunoassay systems reveals that companies used a variety of approaches to access needed technologies, that mature technologies play an important role in the development of new products, and that implementation seemed more important in these companies than strategy.
authors.affiliation: Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA 02140-2390.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Erickson
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D007118:Immunoassay / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States