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The hearing-aid part that became a radio
In the 1950s, a small Japanese firm licensed the transistor, a part its American owner thought suited hearing aids, and built radios with it. Research and a book billed as a bestseller show when new technology really does beat established firms.
Major #23: Electrical EngineeringThe story: Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita (1950s). The book: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen.
In this lesson
- A part with one obvious use
- Worse, and it sold anyway
- What the research says
- The book: The Innovator’s Dilemma
- What the evidence says about the book
- Where this comes from
- Try it today
- 4 questions to check yourself