diesel-powered to electric-diesel locomotives. By mid-20th century, trains were making longer, more comfortable, and faster trips at lower costs for passengers. Other areas that add to everyday quality of life include: the innovations to the light bulb from incandescent to compact fl...
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Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a new idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself.
Due to its widespread effect, innovation is an important topic in the study of economics, business, entrepreneurship, design, technology, sociology, and engineering. In society, innovation aids in comfort, convenience, and efficiency in everyday life. For instance, the benchmarks in railroad equipment and infrastructure added to greater safety, maintenance, speed, and weight capacity for passenger services. These innovations included wood to steel cars, iron to steel rails, stove-heated to steam-heated cars, gas lighting to electric lighting, diesel-powered to electric-diesel locomotives. By mid-20th century, trains were making longer, more comfortable, and faster trips at lower costs for passengers. Other areas that add to everyday quality of life include: the innovations to the light bulb from incandescent to compact fluorescent and LEDs which offer longer-lasting, less energy-intensive, brighter technology; adoption of modems to cellular phones, paving the way to smartphones which meets anyone’s internet needs at any time or place; cathode-ray tube to flat-screen LCD televisions and others.
Creating the right environment for innovation is critical and so are the techniques that push innovation forward and help us measure it. However, the way the world has developed, the situation today is that there has been a lot of work done on techniques and tools that aid innovation. There is a lot of management literature available on the subject. Also there are ready-to-use products and services that can be used by companies to nurture and measure innovation. Some examples would be the funnel method, the stage-gate method and such other kinds of software that help track innovation.
While you do need techniques, you also need the environment for innovation. Both are important — for example you may have all the ornamental plants in the world but without an oxygen-rich atmosphere, you will not be able to grow any plants. Today, there is almost a plug and play of techniques available but without the right environment, innovation will not grow.2011-12-07
Making innovations becomes very important for life and the develepment in a contury.2011-12-07