"What is innovation? Is it creativity?"
No. Creativity and innovation are different.
Creativity is the capability or act of conceiving something original or unusual. Innovation is the implementation of something new.
In its purest sense, invention can be defined as the creation of a product or introduction of a process for the first time. Innovation, on the other hand, occurs if someone improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process or service.
STEVE JOBS: THE POSTER BOY OF INNOVATION
If ever there were a poster child for innovation it would be former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. And when people talk about innovation, Jobs' iPod is cited as an example of innovation at its best.
But let's take a step back for a minute. The iPod wasn't the first portable music device (Sony popularized the "music anywhere, anytime" concept 22 years earlier with the Walkman); the iPod wasn't the first device that put hundreds of songs in your pocket (dozens of manufacturers had MP3 devices on the market when the iPod was released in 2001); and Apple was actually late to the party when it came to providing an online music-sharing platform. (Napster, Grokster and Kazaa all preceded iTunes.)
So, given those sobering facts, is the iPod's distinction as a defining example of innovation warranted? Absolutely.
What made the iPod and the music ecosystem it engendered innovative wasn't that it was the first portable music device. It wasn't that it was the first MP3 player. And it wasn't that it was the first company to make thousands of songs immediately available to millions of users. What made Apple innovative was that it combined all of these elements -- design, ergonomics and ease of use -- in a single device, and then tied it directly into a platform that effortlessly kept that device updated with music.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-grasty/technological-inventions-and-innovation_b_1397085.html
http://www.destination-innovation.com/articles/what-is-the-difference-between-creativity-and-innovation/
Dear Nabonita,
The every moment is an innovation compared to the last one.
According to Heraclitus the ever-present change is the fundamental essence of the universe. “No man ever steps in the same river twice”. Vassilis
This is a very good question. And this question has many possible answers.
The short answer is: New light shed on structures of the world.
Innovation can assume many different forms, ranging from such things as the
- recent additions to the Periodic Table for chemistry (the innovation here is in finding a means of uncovering the added elements in the Periodic Table): http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/04/four-new-elements-find-a-place-on-periodic-table (see attached image)
- capturing images showing the Martian surface (the innovation here is in the engineering design of the Mars Curiosity Rover robotic device, the placement of that robot on the Martian surface and the Rover's abililty to transmit photos of the Martian surface back to Earth): http://www.space.com/18027-mars-rover-curiosity-amazing-photos-red-planet.html (see attached images)
- recent discoveries about the geometry of brain activity to the discovery or the discovery of new species of aquatic organisms.
I would say it's the recreation of something, the celebration of something new like an achievement, a graduation, things of that sort
According to Peter F. Drucker the general sources of innovations are different changes in industry structure, in market structure, in local and global demographics, in human perception, mood and meaning, in the amount of already available scientific knowledge, etc.
Innovation is a new idea, more effective device or process. Innovation can be viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated 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 more effective and, as a consequence, new, that "breaks into" the market or society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation
Check my article "The Effects of Stigma on Health Service Utilization and Health Outcomes among Individuals with Chronic Depression" in the Journal of The New York State Nurses Association, Issue Vol. 44, No. 1
"What is innovation? Is it creativity?"
No. Creativity and innovation are different.
Creativity is the capability or act of conceiving something original or unusual. Innovation is the implementation of something new.
In its purest sense, invention can be defined as the creation of a product or introduction of a process for the first time. Innovation, on the other hand, occurs if someone improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process or service.
STEVE JOBS: THE POSTER BOY OF INNOVATION
If ever there were a poster child for innovation it would be former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. And when people talk about innovation, Jobs' iPod is cited as an example of innovation at its best.
But let's take a step back for a minute. The iPod wasn't the first portable music device (Sony popularized the "music anywhere, anytime" concept 22 years earlier with the Walkman); the iPod wasn't the first device that put hundreds of songs in your pocket (dozens of manufacturers had MP3 devices on the market when the iPod was released in 2001); and Apple was actually late to the party when it came to providing an online music-sharing platform. (Napster, Grokster and Kazaa all preceded iTunes.)
So, given those sobering facts, is the iPod's distinction as a defining example of innovation warranted? Absolutely.
What made the iPod and the music ecosystem it engendered innovative wasn't that it was the first portable music device. It wasn't that it was the first MP3 player. And it wasn't that it was the first company to make thousands of songs immediately available to millions of users. What made Apple innovative was that it combined all of these elements -- design, ergonomics and ease of use -- in a single device, and then tied it directly into a platform that effortlessly kept that device updated with music.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-grasty/technological-inventions-and-innovation_b_1397085.html
http://www.destination-innovation.com/articles/what-is-the-difference-between-creativity-and-innovation/
Good question. The broad definition: "innovations are all new in the world" sounds beautiful, but it does not contain the concrete information. It is necessary to have a more precise definition.
There is not any universally recognized international definition for "innovations" - almost every author creates his own definition.
In my opinion, innovation is a new product or technique which has changed any part of our life. For example - smartphone - obviously, this device has changed our life. But there is a question: how big must be the changing of the life? Where is a border: this is an innovation and that is not innovation, because the changes are too small.
Creativity and innovation is to look for things that look different from everyone
Develop just-enough solutions at the right level of maturity to pursue the opportunity with a rapid response. Understand when to advance to the next stage, what the right level of confidence looks like, and how being first and being successful can co-exist.
Discovery/Invention/Innovation
One popular way to frame the innovation process is to break it down into discovery (new knowledge), Invention (new technologies) and innovation (useful things like products and services). However, it doesn’t take much thinking to realize that this isn’t very useful because it confuses work products with work processes.
For example, both penicillin and the discovery of DNA were both the products of discovery (and eventually, by Heidegger’s definition, became technologies), but in one the process was accidental and the other the process was innovative, combining new techniques in chemistry, biology and physics in ways no one had thought of before.
And that is a very crucial point. It is absolutely senseless to argue what constitutes a commercial product or service (it is, after all, a matter of context rather than of quality), but finding novel solutions to important problems is a crucial component of modern business life.
The Innovation Management Matrix Revisited
To finish up, I’d like to return to an earlier discussion on Innovation Excellence about whether innovation needs a purpose by introducing a modified version of the Innovation Management Matrix I published in Harvard Business Review. Each of the four quadrants represents an area of innovation in that each requires finding novel solutions to important problems and as well as the opportunity to create new products and services. (If you doubt the importance of quantum teleportation, see my earlier article on the next digital paradigm).
By arbitrarily determining that Netflix and the iPhone are innovations and the discovery of the structure of DNA and quantum teleportation are not, we would be unnecessarily limiting ourselves and therefore missing opportunities. After all, one man’s purpose is another man’s folly.
They do, however, require separate and distinct innovation processes and that’s where the discussion becomes important. In order to manage innovation effectively, you need to focus on one set of processes or your organization will become hopelessly muddled.
However, you will still need to gain some competence in other quadrants or you will miss opportunities (as Apple is doing now). Finding the right mix of research, partnering, mining the organization for disruptive ideas and engineering improvements is essential for every organization.
"By: Greg Satell"
http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2013/04/14/what-is-innovation-2/
"What is innovation? Is it creativity?"
Creativity is about coming up with the big idea. Innovation is about implementation of the idea.
Shawn Hunter, author of "Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes," (Wiley, 2013) defines creativity as the capability or act of conceiving something original or unusual, while innovation is the implementation or creation of something new that has realized value to others.
"Creativity isn't necessarily innovation," Hunter told Business News Daily. "If you have a brainstorm meeting and dream up dozens of new ideas then you have displayed creativity, but there is no innovation until something gets implemented."
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6848-creativity-vs-innovation.html
We have a ‘’violent Fondness for change, and greater Eagerness after Novelties’’ Mandeville, B. 1732, The Fable of the Bees
From the quotation above, I deduce that innovation has to do with new ways/ things arising from human curiosity. These may include creativity, invention and breaking away from the past.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
----- Winston Churchill
"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable."
------ William Pollard
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