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Innovation is about the Remixing of Ideas

An awful lot of innovation is based on the remixing of existing ideas and sometimes adding a little bit new as well. 
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An awful lot of innovation is based on the remixing of existing ideas and sometimes adding a little bit new as well.  And you’ll see a lot of the innovations in the technology space are really building upon things that have been done before, remixing them in new combinations to solve new problems.  So most people who study innovation will say remixing is an important part of it. 

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