The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession With the New Disrupts the Work That Matters Most

Sasha Lilly: Is it actually a bad thing that innovation has declined? Lee Vinsel: I think we have come to treat innovation as if it's a good in itself. He says crack cocaine was obviously a major innovation in the 1980s, you know, it displaced another more expensive product called blow. But he and his co-author say they're not anti technology. We like our new stuff,. And so there are real questions to ask about how we could change research policy for better innovation outcomes.