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  • Government planning necessarily results in mindlessly, irreversibly destroying more resources than would be thinkable under almost any other regime -- government planning cannot be innovation, it is always unnovation (i.e. something that might be politically popular for the emporer, but later will be seen a giant leap backward).

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2010

  • "Most innovation, well, isn't: It is 'unnovation,' or innovation that fails to create authentic, meaningful value," he wrote on a HarvardBusiness. org blog earlier this year.

    Qwaider Planet 2009

  • Among his examples of unnovation: the Hummer SUV and

    Qwaider Planet 2009

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