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businessweek.com - 12/10/2008

What Apple Learned from Kodak

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Currently Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Bill Buxton writes a regular-ish column for the Innovation channel here at BusinessWeek . In the process of working on a new piece, we got to emailing about how innovation can flourish in a downturn. Bill made the point that ...

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