American optical technology company co-founded by Edwin Land that dominated instant photography from 1948 until digital photography made its core business obsolete — a canonical case study in how an innovation monopoly can fail to adapt to a technological paradigm shift.
Created and dominated the instant photography category for 50 years — then failed to adapt to digital photography because its profits depended on chemical film sales, making it a canonical Innovator's Dilemma case study.
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