[cpeterso]

> forces which are controlling day-to-day work are essentially controlled by value network of the company (social and technical resources within and between businesses) and constrained by resources, values, and processes of the company.

Google's 20% Time could be considered "research" or R&D not constrained by business requirements. 20% Time seems like a clever way to harness engineers' downtime for work that may benefit the company.

But none of the Google engineers I've met had a 20% Time project. They said product teams (like Android) had much less flexibility for 20% Time than people working on google.com properties.