4 ms·

Innovation is innovation. Just because an innovation isn't a success in the market place doesn't mean it was not innovative.

• nardi 12y ago
  Correction: > Just because an innovation is only a research project* To which I will have to vehemently disagree with you. Otherwise we'll have to start celebrating science fiction authors for their "innovation."
  • enneff 12y ago
    Science fiction authors don't build things. The driverless cars are real, and they work. The Loon balloons are delivering Internet access to remote regions right now.
    • nardi 12y ago
      For some definition of "work." They are mostly fiction. Unless a "driverless car" is supposed to only really be driverless on the freeway. The point is that actually shipping a successful product to consumers is the true mark of innovation. Anything else is research.
      • enneff 12y ago
        Providing your own definition of words is a poor way to argue.
        • nardi 12y ago
          This argument is about the definition of the word "innovation." Definitions of words are important, and worth arguing over.
• a_c_s 12y ago
  "unreleased products" are definitionally neither successes nor failures in the marketplace.