[ThomPete]

Great documentary.

One of the most interesting types of innovation which has come out of Shenzen is within production. Some of these companies literally started creating cheap knockoffs smartphone batteries and is now delivering superior batteries for ex large car manufactorers in ways European companies simply can't compete with.

[Nokinside]

It's easy to look down copying and forget that copying someone who is ahead is usually the fastest way to learn.

Japanese started the same way. They started with cheap sup-par copies and trinkets. Gradually their quality improved.

[ThomPete]

Agree thats actually how most people become great musicians, by learning what others do and build on that. In fact i cant think of an single area which isn't only getting better by copying other stuff and then moving past that.

One could say the evolutionary process is based on this principle.

Copy. Paste. Improve. Repeat.