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Innovation History

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Apple's innovation out of reinvention and refinement have made Apple a disruptive force
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Apple’s Innovation – disruption from reinvention and details

Innovation forks out more than 40 percent gross profit from close to $400 billion revenue. That is a great pinnacle of apple’s success from innovation. Apple is known for its…
Car evolution out of incremental innovation has been diffusing this innovation deeper in society, creating successes and failures
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Car Evolution – competititive race in incremental innovation

Innovation is a synonym to Eureka with a big spark in a light bulb. But the car evolution offers us a different lesson. Unlike a big bang, Carl Benz’s automobile…
Invention of Computer is a journey of automation and creative destruction powered by the creative work of many individuals over more than a century
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Invention of Computer—a journey of automation and creative destruction

The fascinating computer invention expedition is spread from Abacus to ENIAC. It started in ancient times, leading to the development of the digital computer ENIAC in 1945. Although we know,…
Shedding light on industrial economy benefits from the reoccurring patterns in the evolution of five generations of light sources
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Shedding Light on Industrial Economy—reoccurring patterns in light source evolution

Starting from building back better America to massive job loss threats in developing economies, the human race has been bewildered by daunting issues. At the core, it is the dynamics…
Sustaining innovation failure of Walkman offers us pattern to interpret successes and failures, and detect unfolding opportunities
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Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman

Upon the sale of 400 million Walkman music players, what happened to it? Why did the Walkman become obsolete? Both successes and failures of innovations are not magical. Innovations are…
Frugal innovation and Jugaad are attempting to patronize tinkering based local innovation, and producing strip-down versions of industrial products
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Frugal Innovation and Jugaad—slow lane?

Despite promises, neither frugal innovation nor Jugaad offers us any novel approach of offering scalable growth path to the quality of living standards
Disruptive innovation examples offer underlying patterns driving transformative effect due to the unfolding creative destructions
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Disruptive Innovation Examples

Disruptive innovations, often, appear as magical outcomes. However, careful analysis of disruptive innovation examples reveals underlying repeatable patterns. These patterns are useful for incumbent firms to predict and respond to…
Profiting from innovation demands passion for winning and perfecting-cultural lesson for creating an innovation economy through smarter steps
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Profiting from Innovation Demands Passion for Winning and Perfecting

Education, R&D, publications, creativity, and patents are important. However, to leverage them in taking ideas to market at profit, culture matters. In fact, profiting from innovation demands passion for perfection,…
Frugal innovations get stunted—why don’t they keep growing?
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Frugal innovations get stunted—why don’t they keep growing?

Every community, region, and country benefits from creative outbursts. To serve purposes better, creative minds come up with ideas of products, often by integrating available technologies more appropriately. There are…
Flash Memory as Disruptive Innovation
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Flash Memory as Disruptive Innovation

The pen drive is very handy for storing data. Many of us have several of them. A 250 GB flash drive costs as little as $20. However, the uprising of…
Storage Evolution Powering Computer Innovation—unfolding waves of creative destruction
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Storage Evolution Powering Computer Innovation—unfolding waves of creative destruction

Like many other significant innovations, the computer also started the journey in primitive form. The advancement of major building blocks has been driving the evolution from a roomful of machines…
Disruptive Effect of Digital Camera—How did Canon Avoid Kodak Moment?
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Disruptive Effect of Digital Camera—How did Canon Avoid Kodak Moment?

The later part of the 20th century created many excitements in the technological innovation industry. Among them, the most expensive company in the world started the journey from the garage.…

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