Innovation Stories

Innovation Stories

Written by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele

Inventors: Innovators or Tweakers?

Ask people to come up with a list of the great inventors of all time and the names will be familiar. From the past it is likely that you would see Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Louis Pasteur, the Wright brothers… From more present times, names such as Steve Jobs, Tim Berners Lee […]

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Innovation Stories

Written by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele

The Habits of Innovative People

In their book, The Innovator’s DNA, Dyer, 
Gregersen and Christensen state that “…innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated’. The authors have identified four discovery skills that ‘trigger associational thinking by helping innovators increase their stock of building block ideas from which innovative ideas spring” (Dyer et al., 2011, p. 23). […]

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Innovation Stories

Written by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele

Innovation Stories

Written by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele

Google Glass: Going Beyond the Obvious

“We started Project Glass to build technology that’s seamless, beautiful and empowering. To share the world through your eyes. To get answers and updates, instantly. To be there when you need it, and out of your way when you don’t.” (https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/about). Google X has developed Google Glass as a hands-free, smartphone-esque computer. Using voice control, Google […]

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Innovation Stories

Written by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Bigger Thinking: the ‘Eye-Phone’

Scientists from the University of St Andrews, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical 
Medicine and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have made a breakthrough in global health by taking existing mobile technology and adapting it in a way which will enable those living in remote areas to be tested for eye conditions, including cataracts […]

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Innovation Stories

Written by Cristina Bianchi and Maureen Steele

The Way Ahead at Henkel: Investing in Innovators of the Future

Henkel, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany,and operating worldwide with leading brands and technologies in the three business areas of Laundry and Home Care, Beauty Care and Adhesive Technologies, runs an annual competition for students around the world designed to help participants learn about sustainability, and bring their creative and strategic management skills to the next level. […]

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