Samuel Stewart Jr., manager of the Wasatch World Innovators fund, pointed out that the region was not hit as hard as other parts of the world during the 2008 recession.
Apple was the path-breaking innovator in point-and-click graphical computing with the Macintosh operating system, but Microsoft's Windows eventually became the big winner in the marketplace.
"Has Hulu Forgotten Enough to Succeed?," from the March 14 , 2008 Innovators' Insights newsletter, pointed out that if Hulu.com was to succeed as a disruption, its corporate owners would have to "forget" many of the lessons of their core businesses.
The fact that consulting firms are not necessarily the best innovators is also pointed out in Duff McDonald's book, The Firm.
There are few convening points for innovators in the midst of prototyping and right now it's a lonely path.
In the model, they find that the starting positions of the competitors are crucial for being cooperative or not: if the innovators start at different points of the research process, the probability of joint ventures decreases, while in joint ventures, the pace of the process slows down.
Interviewees from both care groups pointed out innovators in the primary as well as secondary care sector who initiated and advanced the implementation of integrated care in the region.
Oddly, by the time such a tipping point happens, the innovators of the original spark may find the ideas outdated.
Mr Christensen points out that innovators often start by offering products that are cheaper, but markedly inferior.
As Clay Christensen and colleagues point out in Innovator's Prescription, there used to be 2 types of "blood cancer" and now physicians classify 89 types of leukemias and lymphomas.
