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Multidimensional Enterprise

In: Hyperinnovation

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  • Chris Harris

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Study the lateral frontiers between dense oak forest and open wild flower prairie, and you will discover that no single species dominates the slender terrain. The narrow band between two distinct ecologies fosters the most prolific, often counterintuitive arms race between competing forms of life. The strategies and tactics found in such trenches are unimaginably creative, outinnovating any close cousin found deeper in the ecologies beyond. For example, ants live in thorny bushes where no ant-eaters can prey, yet ants eat the thorny bush as their staple diet and burrow deep inside the bush’s body for ant habitat. By supplying an abundance of sap and juicy leaves, the thorny bush encourages the ants to live within its torso to keep out other bush-eating predators like caterpillars and small rodents. Together, they thrive.

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  • Chris Harris, 2002. "Multidimensional Enterprise," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Hyperinnovation, chapter 0, pages 80-92, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-0735-6_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403907356_4
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