Thanks to your replies. I would like to sort out the 'adjectives' used to describe/differentiate different kinds of innovation.
To begin with, I use the definition of innovation from
http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/innovation_measurement_01-08.pdf
"The design, invention, development and/or implementation of new or altered products, services, processes, systems, organizational structures, or business models for the purpose of creating new value for customers and financial returns for the firm."
I don't know if Christensen or you use the same definition, but I suppose, his or yours will not deviate too much from it and the essential is: create something new to bring socio-economic value.
For Christensen (speaking in the context of competition among firms): there are two types of innovation: Sustaining and Disruptive. Among the Disruptive, there are the Low-End and New-Market.
For Don & Roberto Verganti (speaking in the context of product development???): there are two types of innovation: Incremental and Radical. I wonder if Don cares to say more about how he defines these and how these relate to Christensen's. I am a bit confused. For example, I would have thought that both the incrementally new and radically new can be both sustaining and disruptive. But Don in his previous post seemed to be suggesting that only the radically new could be disruptive.
Rosan
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