The Neats can produce new theories, but all too often they fail in implementation. When the Neat theories are seeing success in implemenation, it is an indication that the area has become mature, stable, and is therefore dying. A Scruffy success will usually be novel and disruptive. A Scruffy success will also, by definition, have a working implementation.
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