Six of the biggest market disruptors investors should watch

Finding market leaders in the NEXT economy

For decades, innovative companies with disruptive ideas have achieved stunning stockmarket success by challenging tradition-bound industries that were unwilling or unable to adapt.

In the 1980s, pharmaceutical firms boosted research budgets to battle the planet's most deadly diseases. The digital revolution in the 1990s saw companies like Microsoft and Intel design software and hardware that powered the personal computer revolution. In the 2000s, upstarts like Google and Amazon.com transformed the way people search for information and shop. The pace of innovation in the 2010s is robust. Think about it. Not long ago, who could have fathomed the ability to control a home security system from your mobile phone or ride in a car without a human behind the wheel? Mega...