WHAT IS INNOVATION ?A quick primer…

Defining Innovation with Dean Kamen• Dean Kamen’s definition of innovation (Innovation 101 website)

The difference between innovation and invention…

Is the iPod an innovation or an invention? (based on Kamen’s definition)

Prior to the iPod,

there was the

walkman…

Prior to the walkman there was the boombox…

QUESTION?Is there really a

difference between this…

…and this?

Is iTunes an innovation or an invention?

Which were player on a record player (or CD

player).

Prior to iTunes, music was limited to records or CD’s.

…to the cassett tape.

If you wanted to create mixes, you had to use one of these (cassett recorders) to record your music from the record…

All of which wasn’t a real great change (conceptually) from Edison’s gramophone.

Invented in 1877 by the way.

The Gramophone (Edison)

iTunes however, changed the way music (and other media) was and is collected, consumed, purchased,

marketed and perceived.It is making the “gramophone” irrelevant for the first time

since 1877.