"How can we become innovative, like MIT, and the startup companies of Route 128 and Silicon Valley?" That's the most frequently asked question I've heard in the last 25 years, as individuals and organizations in Europe and Asia, but also in the United States, strive to get on the bandwagon of high-tech innovation. Thousands of books and magazine articles purport to answer this question. Yet the ones I've seen don't quite match the ingredients I have found to be important among the most successful of the MIT Lab for Computer Science's 60-some startups.

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