What is Innovation? Definitions
vary and people mean different things. After reviewing dozens of definitions
from a diverse set of sources, I propose a consensus on a simple definition…as
a basis for future conversations about Innovation. Note the red and green
highlighting in the following definitions that help lead to the consensus.
10
deffinitions of Innovation:
- “Technically, “innovation” is
defined merely as “introducing something new;” there are no qualifiers of
how ground-breaking or world-shattering that something needs to be—only
that it needs to be better than what
was there before. And that’s where the trouble
starts when an organization requests “innovation services” from a
consulting firm. Exactly what are they really requesting? The fact is,
innovation means different things to different people.”
- “Innovation is the specific
instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
- Innovation is defined “aschange
that creates a new
dimension of performance“
- “Innovation: a creation (a new device or process) resulting
from study and experimentation; the creation of something in the mind; the
act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new“
Wordnet
- “Innovation: First of all, here
is my own definition of innovation: ‘invention refers to new concepts or products that derive
from individual’s ideas or from scientific research. Innovation, on the
other hand, is the commercialization
of the invention itself”
- “The term innovation may refer
to both radical and incremental changes
to products, processes or services. The often unspoken goal of innovation
is to solve a problem. Innovation is an important topic in the study of
economics, business, technology, sociology, and engineering. Since
innovation is also considered a major
driver of the economy, the factors that lead
to innovation are also considered to be critical to policy makers.”
- “Something new or different introduced”
- “Innovation is converting ideas
to numbers”
- “Innovation is a process,
involving multiple activities, performed by multiple actors from one or
several organizations, during which new
combinations of means and/or ends, which are new for a creating and/or adopting
unit, are developed and/or produced and/or implemented and/or transferred
to old and/or new
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