Henderson and Clark’s four types of innovation

Some innovation is radical. Big-bang ideas that are different in big impact ways. Some innovation is incremental. Small advances over previous ideas or improvements that don’t really change the way you did things previously. But radical changes in one area can lead to little impact in another. And what seems like an incremental innovation can have unexpectedly radical results in the real world.

Innovator’s insights

Innovator’s insights

You may have noticed that some radical innovations have very little impact on the success of the people who made them work. It is also often the case that relatively small innovations have ...

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