From Computerworld:
Emerging technologies, which can enable the creation of new products and services, can also disrupt existing markets and create new ones, according to participants in a panel discussion today at the TIECon East 2007 conference in Boston.
“If you’re looking for new opportunities for starting a new company, emerging technologies are important because as they take hold, they create very big disruptions, and with those disruptions there are a lot of opportunities,” said Leon Sandler, moderator and executive director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT. “The new technology is sort of like a fire that rages through a forest destroying all the old trees, but it clears the way for growth, and entrepreneurs bubble up after the fire and start up these new companies.”
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