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ties of small and clearly definable risk, such as exploiting the unexpect-
ed or a process need, or opportunities of much greater but still definable
risk, as in knowledge-based innovation.
Successful innovators are conservative. They have to be. They are
not “risk-focused”; they are “opportunity-focused.”