How Ideas Change the World?

Rough generalization of my guess:

I. Blow Minds
=> people get inspired, determined and committed

II. Innovate
=> inspired people engage themselves into tons of action, experiments, failures, more trials & experiments, insights, discoveries, design, practice => innovation
[ yes Innovation is about Doing instead of thinking!]

III. Spread the Practice
=> people share, communicate and market resulting practices of innovation, until they gain enough acceptance to scale into the main stream.

By the way, modern/scientific corp. management practices took nearly 100 years to scale (And if we are lucky the next-generation practices will take substantially less time to replace it).