Quotes About Innovation

4. You can make money from free.

Rather than top-down innovation by some of the biggest companies in the world, we're seeing bottom-up innovation by countless individuals, including amateurs, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

Variety is free: It costs no more to make every product different than to make them all the same. 2. Complexity is free: A minutely detailed product, with many fiddly little components, can be 3-D printed as cheaply as a plain block of plastic. The computer doesn't care how many calculations it has to do. 3. Flexibility is free: Changing a product after production has started just means changing the instruction code. The machines stay the same.

7. Sooner or later you will compete with free.

8. Embrace waste.

También ha creado una plataforma de innovación, igual que el iPhone de Apple es una plataforma para desarrolladores de software independientes que construyen un negocio en torno a las aplicaciones propias que operan en el teléfono.

only peer production has the capacity to extend as far as the Long Tail can go.

Google is not a media company by any traditional definition of the word, but it makes its billions from the media business model.

The natural model for music and anything else where the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution are close to zero is variable pricing.

At Google's first shareholders meeting, CEO Eric Schmidt elaborated on why he describes Google's mission as "serving the Long Tail.

En otras palabras, la parte en más rápido crecimiento de sus empresas es la venta de productos que no están disponibles en las tiendas minoristas tradicionales. Estas empresas con un espacio

Otro aspecto esencial del código abierto es que los usuarios pueden fabricar los productos por sí mismos, si quieren; no necesitan pagar por ello. Lo cual es magnífico para el 0,1 por ciento del usuario básico, que muchas veces es la mejor fuente de ideas e innovaciones en torno al producto. Pero la realidad es que el otro 99,9 por ciento de usuarios más bien pagarían para que alguien se los fabricase si les garantizan que funcionarán. Éste es el

Por lo tanto, a medida que la demanda se oriente hacia los nichos, mejorará la economía y creará una retroalimentación positiva que transformará todas las industrias (y la cultura) en las próximas décadas.

If you think about it, today's hit is tomorrow's niche. Almost

open-innovation communities connect latent supply (talent not already employed in that field) with latent demand (products not already economical to create the usual way).

la diferencia entre pagar unos centavos por distribuir un contenido virtual, y los dólares que requiere hacerlo con camiones, almacenes y estanterías.

puede ser impreso en 3-D con el mismo coste que un simple bloque de plástico. Al ordenador no le importa cuántos cálculos ha de hacer. 3. La flexibilidad es gratuita. Para cambiar un producto una vez iniciada la producción, sólo se necesita cambiar el código de instrucciones. La máquina sigue siendo la misma.

Yet abundance is the driving force in all economic growth and change.

Today's tangents will become tomorrow's arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you want to slap your head and holler at your accidental brilliance.

The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

Ray Bradbury said it best: "Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

The first law of exuberant imperfection is essentially this: The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child)," Mau's maxim went. "Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

Drones were such a guy thing, she thought. It was downright chromosomal.