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Innovation succession

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Innovation succession is the pattern by which disruptive innovations create new ecological niches that are subsequently colonized, refined, and eventually dominated by actors other than the original innovator. The pattern mirrors ecological succession: the pioneer alters the environment, making it habitable for successors who displace the pioneer through superior adaptation to the conditions the pioneer itself created.

The mechanism is not failure of vision but success of transformation. The innovator\s