Innovention - the process of innovation and invention

Опубликовано 7 сентября 2016, 16:42

Invention is the process of unlocking things that nature knows but we haven't found yet. Innovation is the process of carefully identifying a problem space and then applying technologies from possibly widely disparate fields to solve it (or them). There are three sources of innovation: a need, a dissatisfaction, or a curiosity. A full year course on the methodologies and ways of bringing them to fruition has been prepared and is being taught at the Wharton School of Business. A critical part of this is what we are calling a cognitive prosthesis. Specific examples from research and development, from marketing, from manufacturing, and from everyday home life will be given. Utilization of the methodologies by children will illustrate how much of the world is ignored by people who are too close to a problem or know too much about it.