An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'