Disruptive commercial applications come from small businesses for obvious reasons. This may just be perception bias in the end. The amount of innovative R&D th

Disruptive commercial applications come from small businesses for obvious reasons. This may just be perception bias in the end. The amount of innovative R&D that is implemented and commercially applied by large companies is nothing to sneeze at. Of course, the best examples of such behavior probably comes from outside the IT sector, in more traditional engineering disciplines (think e.g. car manufacturing (outside the US, maybe)).