[ba-unrev-talk] Myth of the lone inventor
From http://slashdot.org
"Malcolm Gladwell (who amongst other things, wrote "The Tipping Point") has
written an article for the New Yorker claiming that the role of the lone
inventor is over. The example of Philo T. Fransworth (the "inventor" of
Television) who failed because (amongst other reasons) he didn't have the
big resources of a company to allow him to focus on his innovations. The
thesis is that it is rare to have a single innovation that makes a product
workable and that getting all of the inovations together requires a (large)
corporation" (01)
The article is found at
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?020527crat_atlarge (02)