Tech drivers like Google (GOOG) push the edge of technologyinnovation and try to find a viable business model that can turn it into revenues and profits.
The Maker movement, the do-it-yourself approach that fosters the joy of making items with everything from high technology to everyday tools and objects, offers one promising model for inspiring innovation.
Disruptive innovation requires three things: a change in technology that simplifies a complicated technical problem, a business model that can take those simplified solutions to the market at low cost and a supporting cast of suppliers and distributors to reinforce the disruptor in the middle.
As the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. outlined in this video on market opportunities in healthcare innovation, the reimbursement model is radically shifting.