# Innovation/Flexibility

> The degree to which conforming to an external standard limits the freedom to innovate beyond it.

Record: `lexicon:innovation-flexibility`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Resource Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/resource-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-innovation-flexibility

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Certification/Compatibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/certification-compatibility.md) and before [Proprietary Deviation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/proprietary-deviation.md).

## Category

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)

## In tension with

- [Standards Compliance](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/standards-compliance.md)
- [Standards Compliance / Innovation/Flexibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/innovation-flexibility-standards-compliance.md)

## Linked from

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)