10 Laws of Technological Innovation Marketing: Technological Marketing Theory Series # 01

Fernando Zelada Briceño

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10 Laws of Technological Innovation Marketing: Technological Marketing Theory Series # 01

Fernando Zelada Briceño^*

Published in American Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (Volume 11, Issue 1)

Received: 22 January 2026 Accepted: 31 January 2026 Published: 11 February 2026

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Commercial risk is inherent and symbiotic to technological innovation, as a consequence of its naturally novel character, which entails a greater or lesser degree of market unfamiliarity. This article presents a conceptual framework composed of a group of-first-ten laws or principles of Technological Innovation Marketing, derived from an inductive approach based on more than a decade of marketing analysis of technologies belonging to sectors such as biotechnology, agribusiness, mining, environmental technologies, software, health and energy, among many others. The laws articulate general principles related to functionality, performance, market objection, adoption costs, functional specialization, indirect competition and technological transversalities. The analysis is supported by interdisciplinary literature on technology, marketing, institutional economics and diffusion of innovations, and is complemented by multiple real cases that are empirically retro-validated against the patterns described, consolidating the underlying concepts. The results reveal that functionality constitutes the primary value of any technology; that market resistance is structural and proportional to the degree of disruption; that perceived value depends on the integral cost of adoption; that specialization of technology increases value but reduces market size; and that every innovation faces pre-existing competition. The proposed model not only provides a coherent explanation of commercial risk, but also offers a practical tool for the validation, communication and adoption of emerging technologies. The expository structure allows any reader, with greater or lesser degree of specialization, within the framework of any territorial or technological reality, to re-think their own technology or technological innovation from the principles developed (bottom up) and, on that basis, return to it with greater commercial understanding (top down). Finally, the evolutionary character of the framework is recognized, opening the possibility of additional laws derived from new research and future evidence.

Published in	American Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (Volume 11, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajetm.20261101.12
Page(s)	7-15
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Marketing, Technology, Technological Innovation, Technology Marketing, Diffusion of Innovations, Technological Specialization, Commercial Technological Risk

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