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Why Big Companies Squander Good Ideas

The FT’s Undercover Economist on the real reasons that corporate innovation dies

The Financial Times
Sep 7, 2018 · 17 min read
Illustration: akindo/Getty Images

By Tim Harford

J F C Fuller did not invent the tank.

That distinction should probably fall to E L de Mole, an Australian who approached the British war office in 1912 with a design that was — in the words of…

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