Diffusion of innovations and the importance of education

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
4 min readNov 2, 2023

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IMAGE: An open laptop with a splash of paint exploding from the screen and an academic graduation cap
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Innovation almost always has positive connotations. We may associate it with technological development, but the reality is that innovation can refer to many other things: products, processes, services, art, business models, etc., that innovators bring to markets, governments or society.

Innovation is related to invention, but it’s not necessarily the same thing…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)