Helping innovation of CR

Abstract

This section analyses possible reasons of rather sluggish pace of CR innovation with the aim of suggesting a range of suitable policies to boost further and more fertile developments of CR technology. Thanks to its advanced features of environmental awareness and, ultimately, propensity for autonomous decision making, CR represents a significant evolutionary step from traditional radiocommunications systems. The autonomous, cognitive re-configuration of CR opens up opportunities for new business models in the wireless communications marketplace built on the novel utility profiles of CR, as was discussed in second chapter. Yet this also means that fledgling CR innovation must overcome significant technological and other challenges on its road to practical implementation. If not addressed properly and quickly, these challenges may fester and become ‘‘reverse salient’’ barriers [49] in the composition and functioning of an eco-system of CR innovation and thus restraining the impetus of CR development. Therefore this section sets out to explore the technology-push and demand-pull processes [47] as applied to CR [50], and then tries to identify and discuss the barriers that may be stalling CR innovation and how they might be reduced or overcome.