%0 Journal Article %T LAUNCHING EFFORTS NEEDED FOR A HIGH-TECH PRODUCT %A Lavinia DOVLEAC %J Management & Marketing %D 2011 %I Universitaria Press Craiova %X This paper aims the difficult problem of creating new product concepts in thearea of high-technology and innovation. Because of scientific discoveries andimpressive development of technology, many companies compete for marketsupremacy on the technological innovations market. In a global market,which is currently in an economic and financial crisis, consumers make a newhierarchy of priorities in terms of expenditure and consumption. Therefore,companies that create new products must be very careful about 2 aspects,so the new product may not become a failure: the products positioning on themarket and the target group which they address to. This paper belongs to themarketing area by bringing into discussion theoretical concepts, by analyzingthe stages crossed by a company in the process of launching a new hightechproduct and crossing the abyss in the product adoption process byconsumers. %K high-tech product %K product adoption process %K launching process %K product lifecycle %K innovators %K PC tablet %U http://www.mnmk.ro/documents/2011/12_DovleacLavinia%20FFF.pdf