《《Principles of distributed innovation》.pdfVIP

Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta The Principles of Distributed Innovation “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else” is known as Joy’s Law in the high-tech industry. Attributed to Sun Microsystems co- founder Bill Joy, this “law” emphasizes the essential knowledge problem that faces many enterprises today, that is, that in any given sphere of activity most of the per- tinent knowledge will reside outside the boundaries of any one organization, and the central challenge for those charged with the innovation mission is to find ways to access that