Journal of Modern Technology and Engineering

This paper redefines what is a radical and incremental technology. The terms are elaborated and derived from the utilization of a generating technological state machine. The basic generating state machine is also extended to include transition probabilities of successes and failures when constructing a technological assembly. Three different simulation scenarios are presented. Each taking into account: a basic generation scenario, simulation where backtracking on failures with decreasing probability of success due to dependencies and a simulation where there are limited number of component interactions. The state machine formalism alongside the simulations provide a basic foundation on which to derive the definitions of incremental and radical technology.