How companies develop new products and how the companies themselves develop in the process.
Iconic design: Douglas Aircraft’s DC-3, introduced in 1936, was a breakthrough.
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The companies that the editors of Technology Review selected for the TR50 all have strong records of innovation. But how does the innovation process at a startup like Twitter compare with that at IBM? In a series of articles in the 1970s, including a 1978 contribution to TR, Harvard business professor William J. Abernathy and MIT professor of management and engineering James M. Utterback posed this basic question:
How does a company's innovation--and its response to innovative ideas--change as the company grows and matures?
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