Wait a minute. We are peppered with
stories of great inventors and geniuses
who changed the world. Do you mean
that their creativity and imagination
was not the reason for their success?
We are very skeptical that innovation
is caused by geniuses. We believe
innovations emerge at moments in
time when all the conditions are right.
The person we credit in retrospect
was an agent of history. We need to
understand the conditions that make
the time for an invention “ripe” and
the dispositions that enable an inventor
to sense the convergence and act
on it.