Characteristics of resistance to innovation

1. An appeal to safety
2. A degree of self-interest among vested interest
3. Paranoia among the powerful

References

How Innovation Works (p. 327).

Here we see all the characteristics features of opposition to innovation.

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• The failure to ban coffee
  • Coffee was banned in Mecca in 1511 as the government feared that it'll become a place for people to gossip about the government (Characteristics of resistance to innovation). Many coffee houses were closed, supplies were burned, and people got beat up if they had coffee.
• Wheeled baggage was ready before the world was ready
  • There were many patents that have been filed for this idea but the idea never took off. The reason it was not a good idea (See Characteristics of resistance to innovation):