What Is True Innovation?

New York Times:

Innovation is what America has always been about,? President Obama remarked in his recent State of the Union address. It?s hard to disagree, isn?t it? We live in a world dominated by innovative American companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. And even in the face of a recession, Silicon Valley?s relentless entrepreneurs have continued to churn out start-up companies with outsize, world-changing ambitions.

But we idealize America?s present culture of innovation too much. In fact, our trailblazing digital firms may not be the hothouse environments for creativity we might think. I find myself arriving at these doubts after spending five years looking at the innovative process at Bell Labs, the onetime research and development organization of the country?s formerly monopolistic telephone company, AT&T.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/26/what-is-true-innovation_n_1302947.html

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