Everything is a remix
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:11 am
Almost all "new developments" that we see today are based on known elements. In music, the use of certain tones, but also entire sequences of tones or rhythms has long been common practice and ranges from simple cover versions to creative remixes or "mash-ups". Through YouTube and Facebook, such reuses of well-known songs reach an audience of millions, sometimes more than the original. The cover video of Gotye's "Somebody that I used to know", which the Canadian band Walk Of The Earth imitated with five people on just one guitar, has now been viewed over 170 million times (unfortunately blocked in Germany). With their original song interpretations, the band now fills huge venues internationally. But is this just "cheap copying"?
How innovations happen
Product catalogues were already in existence in the 1940s. It was also possible to buy kits. But it wasn't until the then 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea in 1943 that it bulgaria telegram screening became one of the most influential economic innovations of the 20th century. Everyone knew about furniture, everyone knew about catalogues and everyone knew what a kit was. But choosing furniture from a catalogue, picking up the kit in the store and assembling the piece of furniture yourself at home was completely new.
The economics professor and founder of the tea campaign Günther Faltin described this approach in his book "Head beats capital" as "founding from components". When founding a company, you use both existing processes and external providers in many areas and can thus focus the innovation process on a small but important area. In addition, many problems have already been solved in other areas and the solutions actually "only" need to be transferred. One example of where exactly this process forms part of the business model is the innovation platform " Innocentive ". Here, experts from outside the field are often given the opportunity to work on problem solutions and benefit from them. On average, the members of Innocentive provide a proposed solution to the task after just 74 hours .
How innovations happen
Product catalogues were already in existence in the 1940s. It was also possible to buy kits. But it wasn't until the then 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea in 1943 that it bulgaria telegram screening became one of the most influential economic innovations of the 20th century. Everyone knew about furniture, everyone knew about catalogues and everyone knew what a kit was. But choosing furniture from a catalogue, picking up the kit in the store and assembling the piece of furniture yourself at home was completely new.
The economics professor and founder of the tea campaign Günther Faltin described this approach in his book "Head beats capital" as "founding from components". When founding a company, you use both existing processes and external providers in many areas and can thus focus the innovation process on a small but important area. In addition, many problems have already been solved in other areas and the solutions actually "only" need to be transferred. One example of where exactly this process forms part of the business model is the innovation platform " Innocentive ". Here, experts from outside the field are often given the opportunity to work on problem solutions and benefit from them. On average, the members of Innocentive provide a proposed solution to the task after just 74 hours .