In a Highly Complex World, Innovation From the Top Down(nytimes.com)
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In a Highly Complex World, Innovation From the Top Down
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/business/yourmoney/29ping.html?ex=1343361600&en=59209d9c55f8aef6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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There is a huge confusion in this article. It tries to equate distributed innovation ("democratized") with government mandated research into things like stem cells (also "democratized" in the literal sense of mandated by a democratic government).
That doesn't even make any sense, to confuse the two.
I have to agree with another comment about finding generalizations where there are none. Painting with a rather broad brush: all technologies are developed by elite teams top-down or distributed.
What about elite, distributed teams? Yah-know -- like the set of all startups :-P
That doesn't even make any sense, to confuse the two.
I have to agree with another comment about finding generalizations where there are none. Painting with a rather broad brush: all technologies are developed by elite teams top-down or distributed.
What about elite, distributed teams? Yah-know -- like the set of all startups :-P
Look to the openMoko for distributed innovation from a mobile device -- and the opening of the spectrum.
There are plenty of successful examples of both top-down and bottom-up approaches to innovation in the marketplace today. Innovation is alive and well, especially in the high tech world, and attempts to put the great diversity of innovation happening today into one of two tidy academic cubbyholes seems like a waste of time.