纵观人类五千年的文明史,创新一直属于少数精英的行为。但是今天,一个大众创新的时代正在向我们走来。对此,微软前首席技术官迈赫沃尔德12年前就有论述。他虽然没有提到大众创新,但却富有远见地指出,美国正进入第四代技术创新时代。这一时期的特点是,独立发明家或小团组发明家成为技术创新的主要力量,他们已取代公司并占据了主导。 Throughout the five thousand years of human history of civilization, innovation has always belonged to the few elite behavior. But today, a time of mass innovation is coming to us. In response, Mehwald, former chief technology officer of Microsoft, discussed this issue 12 years ago. Although he did not mention mass innovation, he pointedly pointed out that the United States is entering the fourth generation of technological innovation. The characteristic of this period was that inventors as inventors or as small group inventors became the main force of technological innovation, and they had taken the place of the company and dominated.