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By definition not everyone can be an innovator. If everyone were being innovative innovation would be the norm. Innovation will always be aberrant. Because we cannot predict the future we cannot say whether a given innovation is good or bad, only that it is different from the norm. In the research literature and in strategy and policy speak, innovation is almost exclusively seen as desirable and positive. Although innovation may be necessary can it ever be considered wholly positive? After all the past is littered with technological dead-ends into which excessive amounts of effort were diverted. Not only that but some innovations, such as recent financial ones, are now considered to have been very harmful. 

Food for thought for the architects of the “knowledge economy” perhaps.