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Incremental innovation helps enhance existing practices or make small improvements in products and processes. These types of innovations may represent evolutionary applications within existing paradigms of earlier, or more radical innovations. Unfortunately, incremental innovations rarely have the ability to become a sustainable source of competitive advantage by providing new capabilities that minimize expenses or speed productivity. True or false?

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