Are entrepreneurs being prevented from innovating?

On Jack Preston's blog (Virgin.com)...

Don't fool yourselves: IT innovation is essentially in the same (or perhaps even deeper) trouble as any other areas, and Google is just another monopoly, with nicer marketing... Larry Page forgot to add the most important part: Google will be the provider of "all information", and that is THE greatest power in our information era by far! Do you think you will find anything that would give Mr Page a bad feeling through Google? Where else would you search? ;-)

I consider myself an innovator on this field, and had a long debate with serious people on LinkedIn about the "value" of a software framework. I had to quit because their reasons were strong (money is the ultima ratio) and I could not add anything more to support my (more "academic") approach.

I formalized my "mission statement" that starts with this:

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We have our economy model based on material goods: companies turn raw materials and resources to products that users individually buy and use. These goods get worn and eventually break, so the user comes back to the company for a new one.

IT artifacts are NOT of this kind. Apart from changeable technical boundaries, an idea, a digitized book, a software can be accessed and used at the same time by unlimited people at the same time. They don't wear off, don't break by the usage; if there is an error, it can be fixed and the change can again be globally deployed.

Shared. Fixable. Ever-lasting. These fundamental features make IT a science, or art, but totally useless for business. ... [If] you create an (IT-term) well-architected component, you SOLVED a task, and that is WRONG for your business!
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See the rest here (if interested) Mission statement.