In a more positive light, there is still a lot to play for, and by offering a differentiated opportunity focusing on cross-border sales, eBay could exploit a gap in the market that Walmart will not have the appetite to pursue.
Using this framework, and the students' stories, we describe how technologies provide differentiated learning opportunities, so that students could pursue personally relevant topics, which in turn created a meaningful curricular opportunity.
Jason McKenna, a K-8 teacher in the Hopewell(PA) Area School District who works with the CMU Robotics Academy points out that it's the combination of high engagement, the ability to teach each student at his or her instructional level and provide opportunities for differentiated engagement "that makes Robotics such fun for me as a teacher".
"They had outstanding and differentiated content, and the opportunity to migrate it from offline to online, both on the Web and on mobile," he says.
The risk of product adoption is uncertain for nascent markets; however, the opportunity for differentiated IP to create a new market category can outweigh adoption risk.
For example, as stem cells usually remain in a given tissue for much longer than their differentiated progeny, the lifetime opportunity to acquire transforming mutations may be increased.
There are opportunities to establish differentiated, sustainable social media brands with large, passionate audiences.
Decomposing domain-specific problem-solving competence into various facets and, at the same time, providing an integrated measurement offers opportunities for a differentiated assessment of competence profiles and individualized interventions (Herl et al. 1999; Sugrue 1995).
If you're publishing in areas of high-value or well-differentiated content, there are potential opportunities to think about that (pay walls).
But if it's going to make that leap from $300 million in annual advertising revenue to the kind of fire hose that Google or Facebook have created, it needs to be able to go to advertisers and show them a differentiated — and equally powerful — advertising opportunity.
