Let's start with the definition of innovation and cut into the central theme of the article title step by step.
We can see from the definition that both improvement and creation belong to innovation. To put it bluntly, what is improvement? Didn't you copy your deskmate's English composition in middle school and hand in some beautiful advanced words yourself? Therefore, friends who are determined to innovate, needless to say, I must be purely creative in my life and invent something entirely by myself. In fact, if we can make great improvements on the basis of the original things or methods, it is also very innovative. Do you remember Watt lying in the physics book of junior high school? Watt only improved the steam engine, but because the efficiency and performance of the steam engine have been greatly improved, people don't care who invented the steam engine first.
In fact, I think improved innovation is even more critical than pure creative innovation.
The reason for this is the following：
After discussing the basic concepts, let's think about the relevance of' plagiarism and innovation'.
Picasso's famous Chinese saying is, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." We should never be ashamed when we steal other people's excellent ideas.
People who often read books may always feel that they have read this sentence somewhere, yes, it is the biography of Jobs.
By quoting Picasso, Jobs is telling the world that ordinary artists are good at imitation, but their works can only achieve form, but they lack soul. Great artists are not ashamed of plagiarism. They never blindly accept other people's wisdom, but shine on you is better than Blue, and eventually they become the best in the field.
That's true. When producing the first generation of jelly-colored iMac, Jonathan Ive took his team to the candy store to study the texture and color of fruit candy, which was stealing; When designing the iPhone, Jobs and the design team referred to the design of Braun calculator. When designing the iMac, Jobs asked his team to study the high-end kitchen utensils produced by Cusinart. These things can't be "copied" unless someone studies them carefully, but after they are taken, they are natural and unique, and they are likely to be "thieves".
Wait, let's look at this sentence of the horse again.
Tencent stole "ICQ" from qq, "kiki" from WeChat, "path" from friends circle and so on. The strategic products in Tencent's history can find the shadow of imitation. Intriguingly, the imitators quickly disappeared and Tencent succeeded.
Still not clear? Come again.
Let's take a look at Microsoft, which is similar to the battle between Microsoft and Lotus office software, and there are too many battles with Netscape browser. With the advantages of the operating system, Microsoft even "steals" unscrupulously, even less than "stealing". And the result? Wu Jun's "Top of the Wave" describes Microsoft like this:
Some people are even bored to maintain the plagiarism lists of Tencent and Microsoft, and they are reimbursed by big companies.
The CEO of a small company is not even satisfied. It's no use, the business world may be so cruel. Users only care about whether your product is good or not, and have no time to care where your product is "stolen".
In fact, we must admit that the cognition of outstanding entrepreneurs is mostly the same, but different from that of ordinary entrepreneurs.
Can you say that plagiarism and innovation do not depend on ability? No, if not, why did the above-mentioned great companies achieve greatness when even imitators disappeared rapidly? If you can't explain it, you can't say it can't.
As for how to do plagiarism innovation, I can only tell you honestly, I don't know. In fact, I don't believe anyone can give an accurate answer. The purpose of such a long speech is only one, to treat the art of plagiarism rationally, namely:
Plagiarism innovation is innovation, and it is often a high-level innovation. "
Let's talk about other related knowledge of innovation. In business and technology, investors often evaluate whether innovation is continuous innovation or destructive innovation. The concepts of continuous innovation and destructive innovation are very emotional, and everyone just says afterwards that this is continuous technology and that is destructive technology. There are few or even only intuition that can really evaluate. Therefore, it can only be said that the innovation that can cause great changes in business is destructive technological innovation, otherwise it is continuous innovation.
Innovation is not all technological innovation. Although I mainly take the field of business technology as an example, there can be innovations in management, methods and business models. The United States even had a plan to apply for a business model patent before, but it eventually gave up because of opposition from all over the world.
When it comes to innovation, we can't talk about intellectual property rights. People who don't study law in China are not very sensitive to intellectual property rights, such as me. I didn't realize how important intellectual property protection is to innovation until I took courses related to intellectual property this semester. It was the first time that I knew that some companies actually made huge profits by registering patents and trademarks first, and it was also the first time that I realized that many small companies were reimbursed under the law because of intellectual property issues. I really learned. I hope those who participate in innovation will know more about this knowledge.
This thinking and sharing is like this. I hope it can at least arouse everyone's small thinking. Thank you for reading.