首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
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
admin
2018-06-06
31
问题
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 new 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.
In the author’s opinion, Obama’s approach to the health and energy problem ______.
选项
A、is a doomed endeavor at its very beginning
B、typically illustrates the complexity of the situation
C、lacks a proper vision though effective in a short term
D、shows why large organizations are less innovative
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ut6Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
IsStanfordstillauniversity?TheWallStreetJournalrecentlyreportedthatmorethanadozenstudentshaveleftschooltowo
Bigcompaniesswallowlittleoneseveryday.Sothe【C1】______onMarch25thbyYahoo(annualrevenue,$5billion)ofSummly,aBr
Bigcompaniesswallowlittleoneseveryday.Sothe【C1】______onMarch25thbyYahoo(annualrevenue,$5billion)ofSummly,aBr
Asimpleideasupportsscience:"trust,butverify".Resultsshouldalwaysbe【C1】______tochallengefromexperiment.Thatsimple
Asimpleideasupportsscience:"trust,butverify".Resultsshouldalwaysbe【C1】______tochallengefromexperiment.Thatsimple
Oldpeoplearealwayssayingthattheyoungarenotwhattheywere.Thesame【C1】______ismadefromgenerationtogenerationand
Researchhasshownthat—inbothsexesandacrossnumerouscultures—attractivepeoplearejudgedtobesmarter,kinder,morehone
Researchhasshownthat—inbothsexesandacrossnumerouscultures—attractivepeoplearejudgedtobesmarter,kinder,morehone
Sevenyearsago,whenIwasvisitingGermany,Imetwithanofficialwhoexplainedtomethatthecountryhadaperfectsolution
Sevenyearsago,whenIwasvisitingGermany,Imetwithanofficialwhoexplainedtomethatthecountryhadaperfectsolution
随机试题
2016年该市本级完成财政一般预算支出49.86亿元,比上年增支16.79亿元,增长50.8%。2016年该市教育支出同比增量约是医疗卫生的多少倍?()
本病人应诊断为根据病例特点,从病原学考虑感染的是
以下疾病永久不能献血的是
下列关于ADIS的说法不正确的是
据报道某市的林先生出差两天半回来后竟找不到家了,总共3日平方米的三间平房连同屋里的所有物件统统没了踪影,眼前只是一片废墟。原来这一带正在拆迁。15日一早林先生离家出差办事,17日下午回来一看就傻了眼,房子居然被拆了,而屋里的所有物品都不知去向。无奈,无家可
DAT意指()。
封闭式基金的收益分配,每年不得少于( )次。
中唐时期,白居易、元稹等诗人提出“文章合为时而著,歌诗合为事而作”的主张,掀起了()。
删除触发器tri—Sno的正确命令是——。
Criticismofresearchlaysasignificantfoundationforfutureinvestigativework,butwhenstudentsbegintheirownprojects,t
最新回复
(
0
)