Bringing Tech to Market: The Rules of Innovation

Posted by jamie on Thursday May 16, 2002 @08:40AM from the 1-from-column-e-and-2-from-column-pi dept.

Everyone knows that best-quality plus first-to-market doesn't always equal success. A Harvard prof who specializes in this stuff has a great article in Technology Review that digs a lot deeper, called The Rules of Innovation. It's a look at why some technologies are marketplace success stories and some are forgotten failures -- and more, an attempt at rules which predict which will be which. There are lessons here for the entrenched companies (e.g. Sony) as well as for the disruptive upstarts (e.g. Sony 50 years ago). You have to understand the battlefield to win the war.

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Is Linux Innovation? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-05-16 09:11 · Score: 0, Troll

Even though Linux has set back the state of computing by 10 years reimplementing what's already in FreeBSD and reimplementing it badly, witness the VM and networking instabilities, can it be considered innovation because no one ever bothers to look under neath the hood and see little squirrels running in a wheel trying to pass off as a real Unix(tm) kernel?