Indeed, high tech is the one sector that is not part of this new “technology,” this “entrepreneurial management.” The Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneurs still operate mainly in the nineteenth-century mold. They still believe in Benjamin Franklin’s dictum: “If you invent a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door.” It does not yet occur to them to ask what makes a mousetrap “better” or for whom?
— Peter Drucker, “Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” 1985
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