§Corporate research lab practices

• Insight through making
  • Deep collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users may support insight through making
  • Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users can best iterate via a sequence of different projects
  • Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users depend on building effective “armories” of tool ideas
• Pixar’s movies and technology development act as coupled flywheels
  • RenderMan sales are probably not important to Pixar’s business
• David Holz’s iterative invention cycle
• Dolby Labs