James Surowiecki Quotes About Innovation

Quotes about: Innovation

• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Drug, Competition

  "Exporting I.P". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

• The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

  James Surowiecki

  Innovation, Littles, Fields

  "Net Losses". www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2006.

• Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Fighting, Two

  "What Microloans Miss". www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

• Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

  James Surowiecki

  Powerful, Technology, Numbers

  "Blackberry Season". www.newyorker.com. February 13 & 20, 2012.

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