How has innovation impacted a whole economy?
After reviewing the innovation progress in chapter 1, the second chapter looks at how innovation has impacted a whole economy. In the 1990s, the rapid growth of the Internet was exciting, despite that stock bubble in 2000, the Internet and electronic commerce was there to stay. The macro-level innovation is followed by micro-level innovation such as Google.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter proposed the most famous interpretation of innovation: the original factors of production regroup and change its industrial capabilities to meet market demand, thereby creating profits.
Innovative course will create profits, but there is damage due to innovation, because innovation would destroy the existing economic model, but after the destruction, the new replaces the old, the result is more beautiful, which is famous Schumpeter's "creative destruction" theory.