Inventions Minor Innovation Major Innovation Description A new field of technology Improving existing products’ Establish a new market or features (Christensen, 1997) exclude current products but small (Colombo et al, 2015) and it is revolutionary innovation. Generate new ideas Generating innovations from technologies – turn them into a and work with those ideas commercial or practical application Commercialization ability Commercialization ability is required is not required Among the three terms: invention, minor innovation and major innovation, there are a variety of differences.