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For more than a decade, the prevailing view of innovation has been that little guys had the edge. Innovation bubbled up from the
For more than a decade, the prevailing view of innovation has been that little guys had the edge. Innovation bubbled up from the
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2014-05-20
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For more than a decade, the prevailing view of innovation has been that little guys had the edge. Innovation bubbled up from the bottom, from upstarts and insurgents. Big companies didn’t innovate, and government got in the way. In the dominant innovation narrative, venture-backed start-up companies were cast as the nimble winners and large corporations as the sluggish losers.
There was a rich vein of business-school research supporting the notion that innovation comes most naturally from small-scale outsiders. That was the headline point that a generation of business people, venture investors and policy makers took away from Clayton M. Christensen’s 1997 classic, The Innovator’s Dilemma, which examined the process of disruptive change.
But a shift in thinking is under way, driven by altered circumstances. In the United States and abroad, the biggest economic and social challenges—and potential business opportunities—are problems in multifaceted fields like the environment, energy and health care that rely on complex systems.
Solutions won’t come from the next new7 gadget or clever software, though such innovations will help. Instead, they must plug into a larger network of change shaped by economics, regulation and policy. Progress, experts say, will depend on people in a wide range of disciplines, and collaboration across the public and private sectors.
" These days, more than ever, size matters in the innovation game, " said John Kao, a former professor at the Harvard business school and an innovation consultant to governments and corporations. In its economic recovery package, the Obama administration is financing programs to generate innovation with technology in health care and energy. The government will spend billions to accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records to help improve care and curb costs, and billions more to spur the installation of so called smart grids that use sensors and computerized meters to reduce electricity consumption.
In other developed nations, where energy costs are higher than in the United States, government and corporate projects to cut fuel use and reduce carbon emissions are further along. But the Obama administration is pushing environmental and energy conservation policy more in the direction of Europe and Japan. The change will bolster demand for more efficient and more environmentally friendly systems for managing commuter traffic, food distribution, electric grids and waterways.
These systems are animated by inexpensive sensors and ever-increasing computing power but also require the skills to analyze, model and optimize complex networks, factoring in things as diverse as weather patterns and human behavior. Big companies like General Electric and IBM that employ scientists in many disciplines typically have the skills and scale to tackle such projects.
The text is written to answer the question______.
选项
A、Does innovation belongs to the small?
B、Why small businesses are more innovative?
C、Are Americans more creative than Europeans and Japanese?
D、Why is technological innovation important to today’s world?
答案
A
解析
主题题。第一、二段提到,人们以前普遍认为小公司比大公司更具有创新能力,而从第三段第一句开始发生了转折,以后几段也都在说明大公司在创新上所拥有的优势。得出的结论显然是:在当今世界,小公司的个别创新是不够的,已经不能领导创新的潮流,从而解决复杂的问题了。因此,正确答案为选项[A]。另请参阅以上各题题解。
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