You mean like Apple and the iPhone? Or the light-bulb before Edison made them commercially successful? "Imitating" something in a way that is commercially suc

You mean like Apple and the iPhone? Or the light-bulb before Edison made them commercially successful? "Imitating" something in a way that is commercially successful to the point where the technology gains widespread adoption when before it had only niche adoption is innovation in itself. Tesla is building the early smartphones. Someone else is going to build the iPhone and yet someone else will build the hordes of HTCs and the Samsungs running Android.