Technology wants to be Emergent
A necessary precursor to market-wide emergent innovation is the development of "standards," such as the Web Standards, with the iterations, maintenance, and governance overseen by a Standards Organization.
Terrance Tao keeps a blog about his work, detailing both successes and where he is stuck. Paul Erdos put forth challenges during his lifetime, unsolved problems in mathematics. When posting about his struggles, a random commenter said that he was working on an algorithm to solve sudoku puzzles that may help. It turned out to be the breakthrough , as their collaboration helped solve the problems.
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