Innovation tokens in serial is dangerous but in parallel is good.

Think of an innovation token as a novel problem.

A high chance that it doesn't work, but a low chance that it does work.

And if it does work, it's game-changing.

In serial: you need all of them to work, and the likelihood that all of them work diminishes super-linearly.

In parallel: if any one of them works, you get something game changing.

Each one gives you more chances for a game-changing result.

Innovation tokens are acorns.