Thanks for the correction, and sorry for being a Noob :-) Your comment spurs me to address the question: what is innovation? I would say that innovation is abo

Thanks for the correction, and sorry for being a Noob :-) Your comment spurs me to address the question: what is innovation? I would say that innovation is about successfully bringing a technology to a mass-market that has previously been unaware of it. Note that according to this definition the innovator doesn't necessarily have to be the same entity as the original inventor. I think Skype, Amazon, twitter, etc. are innovative even though they didn't invent their core product (except for Amazons patented one-click shopping system of course ;-)) they just brought it to the masses. I think that being an innovative company has a much broader scope than simply being an inventor.