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innovation

[in-uh-vey-shuhn] / ˌɪn əˈveɪ ʃən /


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User-friendly design also paved the way for innovation.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

FDEs are tasked with helping customers deploy agentic AI and using their experiences to inform platform innovation, ServiceNow shared with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

“What we needed is the innovation and the expanded growth opportunity… So now the worry is gone, you can give us back the market cap.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"This shows that evolutionary success is not only about biological innovation -- timing and environmental context matter."

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

This suggested to me the Optimal Fragmentation Principle: innovation proceeds most rapidly in a society with some optimal intermediate degree of fragmentation: a too-unified society is at a disadvantage, and so is a too-fragmented society.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond