"Tesla represents the open-source, hacker, do-it-yourself ethos of rapid-fire innovation and implementation".
On Monday, Ford Motor Company suggested at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, that the car itself could become a platform for the kind of rapid-fire innovation inspired by the Cleanweb Hackathon.
Dedicated to surface design studios selling prints and mixed-technology designs, like prints overlaid with embroidery and other textile embellishments, Indigo has become a hub where hundreds of exhibitors vie for a competitive advantage through a mindboggling variety of styles and rapid-fire innovation in what has become an increasingly fragmented market.
"Half the cops in America carry a Taser as well as a gun," says Rick Smith, Taser's boss.Having come to dominate what Mr Smith calls the "less-lethal weapon space", Taser has begun a burst of rapid-fire innovation that could, he believes, turn it into a business with sales of $1 billion a year ten times its current size.
Our digital immersion from laptops and BlackBerrys to iPads and Droids–has spawned rapid-fire innovation in retail financial services.
In an industry with rapid-fire innovation like that of the global mobile device industry, attitudes like these constitute a death sentence.
But behind the rapid-fire innovation of the last few years, questions loomed over whether the federal government would welcome the complete overhaul of driving as we know it — or if it would put up regulatory roadblocks to slow the industry's efforts. .
Impressionism led to van Gogh and Cézanne; Whistlerism to William Merritt Chase and Thomas Wilmer Dewing — pandering to English and American collectors who were nonplussed, if not appalled, by the rapid-fire innovations on the Continent.
This subtler, less visible competition among the kinds, as much as the alchemical possibilities of the craft, may be the real fire of innovation.
The government would also be counting on the breakup to re-ignite the kind of brush fire of innovation in the personal computer software industry that flourished in the early days of the PC in the 1980's.
First and foremost, to spark the fire of innovation you need a steady supply of quality engineers and entrepreneurs.
