Maybe in Hollywood movies or in "hard sciences" like physics.
In any science. The key word is "successfully". Existing establishment does not welcome such a development [if only for ego reasons], thus it is a path with obstacles. First it is not easy to come up with a superior product [be it non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky and Riemann in mathematics, Linneus' classification system in biology or Pasteur's work on vaccinations in biology/medicine], and then there is a "marketing phase", although this is easier than coming up with a breakthrough advance, for a breakthrough success in science has a way of demonstrating and "selling" itself.
Pons and Fleishmann are a good exhibit here - they went after the brass ring with their cold fusion, and failed. Their professional reputations now are best passed over in charitable silence. But IF it was reproducible and worked - it would be widely used by now, and their likenesses would be gracing the walls of every physics department.