The real story is more complicated Every successful modern e-gadget is a combination of components made by many makers. The story of how the transistor became the building block of modern ma... Read more
Cover via Amazon In his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, Clayton Christensen (see article) made a distinction between two different types of technology that affect business, a distinction tha... Read more
Over the years, we've pointed to tons of research, especially historical research, that shows that near total lack of evidence that patents have any causal relationship to increased innovati... Read more
As you may recall from last month, UPS recently asked us to create a series of videos, where we explain some of the stuff we talk about here on Techdirt on a regular basis in under two minut... Read more
Courtesy of TED: Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradi... Read more