# Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Horace Dediu]]
- Full Title: Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation
- Category: #articles
- URL: http://www.asymco.com/2014/04/16/innoveracy-misunderstanding-innovation/

## Highlights
- Innovations are therefore the most demanding works because they require all the conditions in the hierarchy. Innovations implicitly require defensibility through a unique “operating model”. Put another way, they remain unique because few others can copy them.
    - Tags: [[innovation]] 
- creation. How far the depiction went toward making a dent in the universe defines its innovativeness.