Innovation is not just creating new products that replace the old ones, but rather it is the recreation of our economies, society and planet. Charles Darwin’s Evolutionary theory is what best describes innovation, to summarize: only the strong and those who can adapt to change survive.
Innovation is having an idea and trying to achieve it whether it is from nothing or manipulating an existing concept.
I disagree with Lucy’s statement that “Innovation has been taken as a much too broad concept” because innovation is happening on a day to day basis on a very broad scale. New products are being made, countries are going through revolutions, new technologies are being created and plans to colonize Mars are in the works. All of these innovations are far apart from one another.
A question I would like to ask is who is responsible for making innovation happen?
I believe responsibility falls in court of the entrepreneur for he or she has the ability to take the discovery or technology of an engineer or scientist and manipulate it in a way that will benefit/change economies, society and planet. Innovation is causing us to evolve.
Source: https://blogs.ubc.ca/lucystephenson/2014/11/04/innovation/
Images: http://logicalfaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/evolution-1024×640.jpg
