Five features of innovation 21. Our analysis resulted in a set of five features of innovation. Second, during times of rapid change, innovations designed for static situations can turn into absurdities, creating dilemmas, mismatches or clashing values. Third, it takes hard thinking and hard work to generate and foster societal innovations, to disseminate them and to sustain them. A society and its institutions must therefore do everything they can to develop, attract, support and retain innovative people.
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