Turning an Idea Farm Into a Hit Factory

It’s a tale nearly as old as Silicon Valley itself. Nearly 30 years ago, a young Steve Jobs visited the scientists at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center and spied the first computer that had a mouse and desktop icons. Jobs soon commercialized similar ideas at Apple’s, but Xerox couldn’t seem to take the brilliant concepts from its own labs and turn them into marketable products. Today Hewlett-Packard, the valley’s largest tech company, wrestles with a similar problem.

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