What SIRI And Palantir Teach Us About Changing Trends In Innovation – Semantic Web.

The old rules of innovations were:

1. basic R&D funded in academia

2. first non-grant revenue from defense

3. first commercialization from either finance or healthcare

4 a looong time later, trickle down innovation to consumer.

That flow changed during the social media era.

Social Media Innovation Flow

The social media wave seemed to reverse that:

1. consumer adoption

2 enterprise adoption (“enterprise 2.0“)

3. academics study the societal impact (“technology gets socially interesting when it is technically boring” as Clay Shirky puts it).

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