At the recent E2.0 Forum,
I described a particular dynamic I’ve found: there is no set definition
of innovation. It’s a concept where everyone has an intuitive
sense of what innovation is, but would have a hard time formalizing a
definition. Much like the way U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
described pornography:
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"] and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.
Sure there are dictionary definitions. Merriam Webster defines innovation as: “the introduction of something new.” But that’s really not satisfying. Just because something is new, is it really an innovation? If everything new is an innovation, nothing is.
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Author: Hutch Carpenter
