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Why do some companies produce a stream of winning products, while others fail after just one triumph, or else produce nothing more than a series of rubbish rip-offs? What is it that allows 3M to churn out so many good ideas, or Toyota to produce generations of defect-free cars, or Rubbermaid to think up so many ingenious uses for bits of plastic?
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Da Costa Pereira, G. (1997). Innovation, Free Market Economy and Information Technologies. In: Corsi, C., Kudrya, S., Cardone, C. (eds) From Central State to Free Global Market Economy. NATO ASI Series, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8955-0_14
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