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What Is Innovation, Really? A Working Definition for Defense Technology
Invention creates something new. Innovation makes it matter. The distinction explains why the Pentagon funds so many prototypes and fields so few.

Invention creates something new. Innovation makes it matter. The distinction explains why the Pentagon funds so many prototypes and fields so few.

A prototype that works in a lab is not a program of record. The gap between the two — and how technology transition defense efforts try to cross it — shapes which ideas reach troops.