Make available to markets, governments and society. Innovation is related to, but not the same as, invention

Four types model

Another frameworks that is common in Innovation management courses is suggested by Henderson and Clark. They divide Innovation into four types;

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  Radical innovation: "establishes a new dominant design and, hence, a new set of core design concepts embodied in components that are linked together in a new architecture." (p.11)
  

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  Incremental innovation: "refines and extends an established design. Improvement occurs in individual components, but the underlying core design concepts, and the links between them, remain the same." (p.11)
  

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  Architectural innovation: "innovation that changes only the relationships between them [the core design concepts]" (p.12)
  

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  Modular Innovation: "innovation that changes only the core design concepts of a technology" (p.12)
  

While Henderson and Clark as well as Christensen talk about technical innovation there are other kinds of innovation as well such as service innovation and organizational innovation.