1) Smart people who have great ideas
2) A business model that has no need of those ideas
3) Management who have absolutely no idea how to capitalise on those ideas outside of a core business?
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That's Google. Google are Xerox.
2) A business model that has no need of those ideas
3) Management who have absolutely no idea how to capitalise on those ideas outside of a core business?
...
That's Google. Google are Xerox.
Google could become PARC if they chose. Even have some groups like Spanner's doing unconventional stuff. I think it would take changes in management's priorities and evaluation of employees to get it there. It's not yet but there's potential.