The innovation pyramid

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Entrepreneurship for Everyone
Robert B. Mellor
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Diversity, a major source of innovation

While invention is right at the top of the innovation pyramid, and the middle layer is creativity, what lies at the base is mundane `diversity,' which is responsible for the majority of everyday problem solving (incremental innovation), says Robert B. Mellor in Entrepreneurship for Everyone: A student textbook.

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