They will trap companies in the past and prevent them from riding the next wave of innovation.
Is it true that shared value will "drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy", or merely a pious hope?
Or maybe Silicon Valley will learn the hard way that no regional economy has the birthright to lead the next wave of innovation.
It really is the next frontier, though he claims at the moment that he's not so much surfing the next wave of innovation as "paddling to keep up".
Savvy art-world folk, including Charles Saatchi, were searching for the next big thing, the next wave of innovation in British art.
They conclude that a focus on shared value rather than a narrow profit objective will "drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy".
"This, we believe, is the next wave of innovation in the retail space," says Infosys cofounder and CEO S. "Kris" Gopalakrishnan.
By the end of the century, the groundwork had been laid for the automobile and the next wave of innovation involving power tools and mass production.
The next wave of innovation has come from internet companies like MyWebGrocer, which offers digital grocery services, and Dealer.com, which offers digital marketing services for the auto industry.
In a nutshell, the dilemma is this: firms that succeed in one generation of innovation almost inevitably become hamstrung by their own success and thus doomed to lose out in the next wave of innovation.
"We are definitely looking for the next wave of innovation to improve the quality of service that consumers are getting from legitimate music offerings," says one executive, who did not want to be identified because private licensing conversations were continuing.
