"Role Players in the Innovation Ecosystem" Dispatches from the Frontier Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This is the fourth installment in a series of posts I’ve made about my effort to synthesize recent thinking about innovation as an expression of the evolutionary algorithm. In my previous posts, I’ve tackled the topics of physical technologies and the fitness landscape, deductive tinkering and the evolutionary algorithm, and business models as the product of co-evolution. Now, I’d like to take a stab at identifying some of the key roles played in the innovation ecosystem. And, because theory is useful inasmuch as it helps guide our actions more successfully, I’ll try to frame the roles played by my firm, as just one example.

By Dave Bayless

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