Innovation is about finding a better way of doing something. Like many of the new development buzzwords (which many of them are over-used on many business documents), the concept of innovation originates from the world of business. It refers to the generation of new products through the process of creative entrepreneurship, putting it into production, and diffusing it more widely through increased sales. Innovation can be viewed as t he application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in-articulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that “breaks into” the market or society.
Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation article points out that there is a form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth. The definition of innovation is easy to find but it seems to be hard to understand. Here is a simple taxonomy of related activities that put innovation in context:
- Novelty: Something new
- Creation: Something new and valuable
- Invention: Something new, having potential value through utility
- Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful
The taxonomy is illustrated with the following diagram.
The differences are also evident in the mechanisms that exist to protect the works: Novelties are usually not protectable, Creations are protected by copyright or trademark, Inventions can be protected for a limited time through patents (or kept secret) and Innovations can be protected through market competition but are not defensible through legal means.
Innovation is a lot of talked about nowdays as essential to businesses to do. Is innovation essential for development work? article tells that innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development. Donors increasingly stress innovation as a key condition for funding, and many civil society organisations emphasise that innovation is central to the work they do.
Some innovation ideas are pretty simple, and some are much more complicated and even sound crazy when heard first. The is place for crazy sounding ideas: venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:
Not all development problems require new solutions, sometimes you just need to use old things in a slightly new way. Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
Theorists of innovation identify innovation itself as a brief moment of creativity, to be followed by the main routine work of producing and selling the innovation. When it comes to development, things are more complicated. Innovation needs to be viewed as tool, not master. Innovation is a process, not a one time event. Genuine innovation is valuable but rare.
There are many views on the innovation and innvation process. I try to collect together there some views I have found on-line. Hopefully they help you more than confuze. Managing complexity and reducing risk article has this drawing which I think pretty well describes innovation as done in product development:
8 essential practices of successful innovation from The Innovator’s Way shows essential practices in innovation process. Those practices are all integrated into a non-sequential, coherent whole and style in the person of the innovator.
In the IT work there is lots of work where a little thinking can be a source of innovation. Automating IT processes can be a huge time saver or it can fail depending on situation. XKCD comic strip Automation as illustrates this:
System integration is a critical element in project design article has an interesting project cost influence graphic. The recommendation is to involve a system integrator early in project design to help ensure high-quality projects that satisfy project requirements. Of course this article tries to market system integration services, but has also valid points to consider.
Core Contributor Loop (CTTDC) from Art Journal blog posting Blog Is The New Black tries to link inventing an idea to theory of entrepreneurship. It is essential to tune the engine by making improvements in product, marketing, code, design and operations.
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Amazon Supposedly Asked Job Applicants to Solve This ‘Hanging Cable’ Problem
How far apart are the poles? Here’s the answer.
https://www.menshealth.com/technology-gear/a30733282/amazon-hanging-cable-viral-math-problem-youtube-video/
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The Quantitative Comparison Between the Neuronal Network and the Cosmic Web
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.525731/full
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Androids that offer “digital immortality” begin mass production in Russia
A company claims to make the world’s first humanoid android and offers ‘digital immortality”.
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/startup-begins-mass-producing-robot-clones-people
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Chernobyl fungus could shield astronauts from cosmic radiation
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/radiation-on-mars-fungus
A recent study tested how well the fungi species Cladosporium sphaerospermum blocked cosmic radiation aboard the International Space Station
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/radiationmunching-fungi-are-thriving-on-the-walls-of-chernobyls-reactors/
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Upstream contamination by floating particles
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Google Plan To Replace The Need For College Degrees With Six-month Certificates
https://www.iflscience.com/policy/google-plan-to-replace-the-need-for-college-degrees-with-sixmonth-certificates/
The tech giant Google has announced they will begin accepting Google Learning Certificates in place of college degrees, offering six-month courses for prospective employees to train for in-demand jobs in a fraction of the time it would take at University. The qualification will see successful students graduate with a Google Career Certificate, which will be viewed by the company as the equivalent of a four-year degree for similar roles.
The cost of the courses hasn’t yet been revealed but estimates based on the company’s existing certificates predict it would be around $300 and Google has already announced it will be sourcing funds for 100,000 scholarships.
“These new career programs are designed and taught by Google employees who work in these fields. The programs equip participants with the essential skills they need to get a job. No degree or prior experience is required to take the courses,”
The shift from conventional academia comes in the face of criticism surrounding degrees regarding their accessibility to students. The financial burden of courses that take several years to complete can leave students with enormous debts for years following their graduation. Without job security or the guarantee of a decent wage, undertaking a degree can leave some students worse than they started off. In contrast, the Google Career Certificate aims to prepare students for immediate work for a fraction of the cost of traditional college degrees.
“Technology has been a lifeline to help many small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis. And online tools can help people get new skills and find good-paying jobs,” Walker wrote. “College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn’t need a college diploma to have economic security. We need new, accessible job-training solutions – from enhanced vocational programs to online education – to help America recover and rebuild.”
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An 80-year longitudinal study has found that the real key to a long and happy life is not money or success.
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-what-you-actually-need-to-be-happy-according-to-study/
What is the secret to happiness? It’s a question philosophers have been debating since the days of Socrates. Now, science may have the answer. An 80-year longitudinal study by a team of scientists at Harvard University has found that a network of strong relationships (not money or success) is the real key to a long and happy life.
“The people who were the most satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest at age 80,” said Robert Waldinger, director of the study and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, during a TED Talk.
After 80 years, the study has found that wealth, genetics, social class, and IQ are just not as important to longevity and happiness as a person’s relationships with their friends, family, and community – a result that would have shocked the original researchers.
In fact, relationships are so important when it comes to healthy living that relationship satisfaction at 50 was a better indication of physical health at 80 than cholesterol levels.
“Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation,” Waldinger added.
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“Theory is when you know everything but nothing is working.
Practice is when everything is working and you don’t know why.
I put them together and now nothing is working and I don’t know why…”
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Aivojen päätöksentekoprosessi on suurelta osin tiedostamaton – silti voimme vaikuttaa siihen
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Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers
by Kabir Sehgal
April 25, 2017
https://hbr.org/2017/04/why-you-should-have-at-least-two-careers?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social
It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Maybe you also dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current job. But in my experience, it’s rare for such people to actually make the leap. The costs of switching seem too high, and the possibility of success seems too remote.
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How Estonian companies are combining Industry 4.0 with smart logistics and can help you do the same
Estonian companies have and can provide the know-how for combining advanced industry and smart logistics to industrial businesses, both in Estonia and abroad.
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Engineers Build Retractable Lightsaber That Cuts Through Steel Like Butter
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/engineers-build-retractable-lightsaber-that-cuts-through-steel-like-butter/
Being stuck at home during the pandemic has led to people finding some pretty crazy ways to pass the time, like this 12-year-old kid who built his own nuclear fusor. But the winners might have to be the engineers from the Hacksmith on Youtube, who have created a fully retractable, color-changing lightsaber that cuts through metal like it’s butter.
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“I feel like people might find out I am not as capable as they think I am.’”
First generation university students are at greater risk of experiencing imposter syndrome
https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/imposter-syndrome?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&facebook=1&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1607750398
Increasing efforts have been made in recent years to encourage students to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects.
There’s been a particularly positive emphasis on getting a more diverse group of people onto such courses: women, black and ethnic minority groups and working class people have all been the focus of drives and campaigns designed to help them enter STEM careers.
But, a new study suggests, the competitive nature of STEM courses may be having a knock-on effect on the confidence of certain students, in this case first-generation college attendees (those who are the first in their family to go to university). Such students, the paper argues, are more likely to experience “imposter syndrome” — the feeling that they don’t belong or don’t have the skills or intelligence to continue on their studies — precisely because of this atmosphere of competition.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550619882032
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Graphene inventor solves 150-year-old sand castle mystery
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/graphene-physics-mystery-sand-castle-b1769922.html?utm_content=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1607699652
A 150-year-old physics mystery relating to how sand castles hold together has been solved by the inventor of the “miracle material” graphene.
The Kelvin equation centres around a natural phenomenon known as capillary condensation, which is the process that causes water molecules to bind grains of sand together when wet.
This form of microscopic condensation is fundamental to common physical processes like friction and adhesion, but until now physicists were forced to rely upon the incomplete Kelvin equation that only explains binding forces on a macroscopic level.
The breakthrough was published in the journal Nature this week, in a paper titled ‘Capillary condensation under atomic-scale confinement’.
“The old equation turned out to work well. A bit disappointing but also exciting to finally solve the century old mystery. We can now relax. All those numerous condensation effects and related properties are finally backed by hard evidence rather than a hunch like ‘the old equation seems working – therefore, it sould be OK to use it.”
Professor Geim added: “Good theory often works beyond it applicability limits. Lord Kelvin was a remarkable scientist, making many discoveries but even he would surely be surprised to find that his theory – originally considering millimetre-sized tubes – holds even at the one-atom scale.
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Greatest Finnish invention
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Here’s What It Takes To Raise Seriously Smart Kids, According To A 45-Year-Long Study
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This Chain Defies ALL The Laws Of Gravity!
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Fun ikea investion
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Suomalaiset ovat keksineet esimerkiksi tekstiviestit, sykemittarin ja astiankuivauskaapin. Vaatimaton huomauttaisi, että nämä keksinnöt ovat jo muinaisjäänteitä. Kekseliäisyys kulkee kuitenkin vaatimattomuuden rinnalla nykypäivänäkin, ja siitä toimii todisteena vaikkapa saunavaunu.
Lue lisää saunavaunusta:
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Happiness is a spontaneous and fleeting experience. Satisfaction is a long-term feeling, built from a lifetime of accomplishments.
A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist says most people don’t really want to be happy
https://qz.com/1503207/a-nobel-prize-winning-psychologist-defines-happiness-versus-satisfaction/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=qz-paid&utm_campaign=AWSPromo&fbclid=IwAR2Iod9bX3ISqpRaekPCGp014g08_YSxUZ02Zg6Fuv4NR16OEwN4Lg5h9w8
Kahneman contends that happiness and satisfaction are distinct. Happiness is a momentary experience that arises spontaneously and is fleeting. Meanwhile, satisfaction is a long-term feeling, built over time and based on achieving goals and building the kind of life you admire. On the Dec. 19 podcast “Conversations with Tyler,” hosted by economist Tyler Cowen, Kahneman explains that working toward one goal may undermine our ability to experience the other.
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Quantum philosophy: 4 ways physics will challenge your reality
https://theconversation.com/quantum-philosophy-4-ways-physics-will-challenge-your-reality-150175
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Wait, What? New Research Says Internet Use Is Killing Your Memory
https://futurism.com/the-byte/internet-killing-memory
We’ve all heard the old warning: staring at a screen all day will rot your brain. Though it’s not quite so dramatic, there may be some truth in the message after all — new research reveals that frequent internet use can change how our brains work.
The “limitless stream of prompts and notifications from the Internet encourages us towards constantly holding a divided attention,” said Firth, “which then in turn may decrease our capacity for maintaining concentration on a single task.”
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Forbes Food & Drink Awards 2020: In Praise Of Magic Mushrooms And Lab-Grown Meat
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2021/12/30/forbes-food–drink-awards-2020-in-praise-of-magic-mushrooms-and-lab-grown-meat/?sh=5730e38c4201&utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=social&utm_content=4369409453&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesMainFB
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Accessible tech will power interactive education in a blended world
Exploring the tools that will enable teachers and students to innovate today and tomorrow
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2021 outlook: Here are the technologies, questions that will matter
While 2020 was the year that companies had to get up to speed with digital, what will 2021 hold? Our global editors take a swing at the coming 12 months.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/2021-outlook-here-are-the-technologies-questions-thatll-matter/
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Chart: A Global Look at How People Spend Their Time
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-people-spend-their-time-globally/
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Anssi Vanjoen teknotestamentti.
https://www.city.fi/ilmiot/anssi+vanjoki/3668
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Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain
Technologies such as noninvasive brain stimulation and virtual reality gaming offer insights into how dreams arise and what functions they might serve.
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/scientists-engineer-dreams-to-understand-the-sleeping-brain-68170
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imagination leads to innovation. Facts leads to confirmation bias. people like innovations.
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A silver lining of COVID-19′s dark cloud might be an improved ability to bring to other places the combination of ingredients that made Silicon Valley a technology mecca.
Creating Silicon Valley 2.0
https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/creating-silicon-valley-20
Silicon Valley’s magical concentration of talent, capital, and culture in a single place has led to decades of unparalleled wealth creation—probably exceeding anything ever seen before by orders of magnitude. This spectacular success has induced attempts to emulate it in such enclaves as Silicon Mountain (one in the African nation of Cameroon, and another in the U.S. state of Colorado), Silicon Hills (Texas), Silicon Desert (Arizona), and many more.
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I’m a high school sophomore. Here’s how schools can teach kids to solve real-world problems
Rather than starting with the solution, students should first be taught to research and investigate the problem.
I’m a high school sophomore. Here’s how schools can teach kids to solve real-world problems
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BY LUKE HARRIS
4 MINUTE READ
I’ve loved electronics ever since I was a kid. In 6th grade, after saving up for five years, I built a PC that was better than any computer I could find. Throughout middle school, I tinkered with wiring and welding and electronics (as you can see by the piles of unused Arduino boards and leftover electronics in my room). It was easy to make something for myself—an awesome PC—but making something other people wanted wasn’t as easy.
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Now, as a high school sophomore, I watch ABC’s Shark Tank to see how entrepreneurs tackle other people’s needs. I like seeing the contrast between really clever products and services that immediately seem useful and others that just didn’t work. I often wondered how people could come up with the ideas that made me realize, “I have that problem; I want to buy that!”
When I took engineering during my freshman year, I hoped it would give me the tools and process to develop those kinds of ideas. Instead, we focused on building a solution without first examining the problem. We learned how to draw blueprints from all angles and the names of different mechanics such as pulleys, gears, and levers. We ended the year by using shop tools, such as saws and lathes, to make simple mechanical objects and then using those skills to create one large project such as a mini-car or a primitive clock. We learned how to follow instructions to turn an idea into a prototype, and while that’s a useful skill to have, I think engineering is much more than that.
Luke Harris
That same year I was lucky enough to visit a biotech lab in Boston. There, I saw solutions that engineers had come up with to solve real-world challenges. I saw a glove that helped rehabilitate stroke victims and a backpack to help wheelchair-bound people walk. That day, I realized that engineering isn’t just about knowing how to make cool stuff; it’s about solving problems.
I was able to see that every product, every device, was a solution to a real-world issue. But that wasn’t being taught in my classes. We were never taught how to conduct interviews or do ethnographic research to figure out the underlying challenges that needed to be tackled. In other words, we were given the tools to solve problems but never taught how to apply them.
I started developing a curriculum for teaching middle school and high school students how to research and prototype solutions. In order to do this, I first worked as a teaching assistant at a robotics after-school program. Then I found a college class that guided students through the entrepreneurial process and asked the professor if I could audit it. I interviewed professional design engineers and professors of design.
I learned that the entrepreneurial process is about researching, designing, and engineering a purchasable solution to people’s problems. The reason my engineering class felt incomplete is that they focused only on the last piece of this process, so it felt separate from what was happening in real life.
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My curriculum teaches students how to find problems and how to solve them, including creating prototype products. Not only can schools and after-school programs use it (and have already), but students can go through it on their own time if they want to work independently. The course begins by giving the students a category, for example, beverages, sign postage, desk space, etc. From there, it teaches students how to conduct ethnographic research and asks them to go to a local establishment and figure out what challenges people face. After gathering data, students use problem-solving techniques and design sprints (a method used at design firms) to come up with potential solutions. After further research to see if people like their idea, a final prototype is crafted in the shop.
This program was successfully tested in a local after-school program. One challenge was to get a cookie jar from a high shelf. My favorite solution involved using a chainsaw to cut the shelf down, while the most practical was to construct a platform to reach the shelf. Both approached the problem from different angles and offered creative solutions.
When I look at some engineering examples in the real world, it’s obvious designers jumped straight to a solution without truly engaging the problem. A can that changes color when cold is unnecessary: Why can’t people just touch the can to see if it’s cold? Killing sparrows to protect grain creates a grain fiesta for the exploding insect population. A helicopter with an ejector seat is a good idea for getting a pilot out of the helicopter, but only if you don’t care if they’re alive. What all these bad ideas have in common is a misidentification of the problem they were supposed to be fixing. Even a high school sophomore such as me can see that. Yet when we teach kids engineering, we skip the problem identification—the tough work around understanding the need—and go right to building a solution.
As we move into an increasingly robotic and digital age, solving complicated human problems becomes more important than ever. Schools need to teach more of the process of entrepreneurship and engineering, including development and research to truly understand user needs. If we want the entrepreneurs of the future to succeed, it’s important that our engineering curriculums teach them the necessary skills. During COVID-19, we gained an opportunity to rethink workplace practices and schooling techniques—let’s do the same with the way we teach engineering.
Luke Harris is a sophomore at Horace Mann in The Bronx, NY.
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An 80-year longitudinal study has found that the real key to a long and happy life is not money or success.
This Is What You Actually Need To Be Happy, According To Science
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-what-you-actually-need-to-be-happy-according-to-study/
After 80 years, the study has found that wealth, genetics, social class, and IQ are just not as important to longevity and happiness as a person’s relationships with their friends, family, and community – a result that would have shocked the original researchers.
“When the study began, nobody cared about empathy or attachment,” George Vaillant, a psychiatrist who led the team from 1972 to 2004, explained. “But the key to healthy aging is relationships, relationships, relationships.”
In fact, relationships are so important when it comes to healthy living that relationship satisfaction at 50 was a better indication of physical health at 80 than cholesterol levels.
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Scientists are creating bacterial self-healing treatments and concrete so that historic buildings, bridges and tunnels can repair themselves
Buildings, tunnels and bridges could soon repair themselves
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/buildings-tunnels-and-bridges-could-soon-repair-themselves.html#utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=healing
Stone and concrete structures with the ability to heal themselves in a similar way to living organisms when damaged could help to make buildings safer and last longer
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New Research Could Enable Direct Data Transfer From Computers to Living Cells
https://singularityhub.com/2021/01/11/new-research-could-enable-direct-data-transfer-from-computers-to-living-cells/
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INTERFERENCE PATTERNS HARNESSED FOR OPTICAL LOGIC GATES
https://hackaday.com/2021/01/16/interference-patterns-harnessed-for-optical-logic-gates/