Complexite de L'innovation Technologique

Abstract

This article makes a teorical approach to technological innovation from complexity paradigm. The purpose is to understand the technological innovation processes in organizations going further than that adaptative model, according to which strategic management of technology consists on mechanical adaptation to competence environment imposed by the market, conceiving technological innovation as an imposition to the organization. The article affirms, on the contrary, that such adaptation is difficult because of the complexity of organizational phenomenon (uncertainty, non linearity, sensibility to initial conditions, self- regulation, cohabitation of order and disorder) and technological innovation processes. The understanding of the complexity of such processes and the capability of acting according to that complexity are essential factors to achieve the sustainability of organization through time.