"Innovation by the Entrepreneur" argued Schumpeter, leads to gales of "creative destruction" as innovations cause old inventories, ideas, technologies, skills, and equipment to become obsolete. The question is not "how capitalism administers existing structures,…[but] how it creates and destroys them." This creative destruction, he believed, causes continuous progress and improves the standards of living for everyone." Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950Links to an external site. In terms a little more modern than Shumpater's, Dr. Abhijeett Desai explains that the predominant form of innovation can look disruptive, but is, in fact, transformational innovation. Explore Dr. Desai's thinking in Transformative Innovations vs. Disruptive InnovationLinks to an external site..

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"Innovation by the Entrepreneur" argued Schumpeter, leads to gales of "creative destruction" as innovations cause old inventories, ideas, technologies, skills, and equipment to become obsolete. The question is not "how capitalism administers existing structures,…[but] how it creates and destroys them." This creative destruction, he believed, causes continuous progress and improves the standards of living for everyone." Joseph Alois Schumpeter, 1883-1950Links to an external site.

In terms a little more modern than Shumpater's, Dr. Abhijeett Desai explains that the predominant form of innovation can look disruptive, but is, in fact, transformational innovation. Explore Dr. Desai's thinking in Transformative Innovations vs. Disruptive InnovationLinks to an external site..

 

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