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For an innovator to stay ahead, the road is fraught with constant challenges. Nothing typifies modern capitalism more than the constant churn that takes place at the top, in today’s market place. Schumpeter illustrated this process in his famous observation on the creative destruction that takes place in modern economies. As he observed in 19421.

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  1. See Schumpeter (1942).

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  2. See Peters and Waterman (1982).

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  3. See Collins and Porras (1994).

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(2007). Sustaining Innovation: Staying Ahead. In: Innovation, Market Archetypes and Outcome. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1946-5_6

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