Innovation is easy if you can do it for yourself, by yourself, using stuff you have. That's a paraphrase of something in somebody's book. but it is really true

Innovation is easy if you can do it for yourself, by yourself, using stuff you have. That's a paraphrase of something in somebody's book. but it is really true. If costs and benefits don't accrue to the same organization or individual, if cooperation of multiple players is needed, and if some unobtainable component or technical breakthrough is needed, then innovation is really hard.