TAKE TIME- Be innovative (Radical innovation)

Innovation throughout human history has spurred on human development, though it has always being add to pin it down as the root cause of development in business, science and policy making. But I would like to remind you that every time that they have made a breakthrough or advances say in the cure for polio, better treatment for cancer are they not implying innovative advances? I want to focus on two kinds of innovation at this time that is Radical innovation and end user innovation (incremental innovation). Radical innovations often draw on new scientific knowledge generated in universities and research organizations.

The 20th century witnessed dramatic medical inventions – a vaccine against yellow fever, Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, Salk’s development of the oral polio vaccine, Barnard’s first heart transplant. These and other discoveries have had widespread benefits unimaginable a century before and the pace of discovery shows no signs of abating. In 2005, the average UK life expectancy for men was 78 years, compared to 66 in 1950 and 48 in 1900.2 the next wave of discoveries is likely to be treatments and cures for cancers and for the diseases of ageing, such as Alzheimer’s.

In business long-term corporate success is linked to the ability to innovate. Although corporate investment in improvement to existing products and processes does bring growth, it is new game changing breakthroughs that will launch company into new markets, enable rapid growth, and create high return on investment.

But today it is inventions in electronics and communications that catch the imagination –Jobs’ and Wozniak’s development of the Apple computer, Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web and its exploitation by Page and Brin in the form of Google, and by Omidyar’s eBay. Arguably the biggest recent impact has come from the mobile phone, but here it is difficult to
Identify a single inventor. The nature of invention has significantly changed: modern inventions are largely the result of team work.

Can you radically drum up an idea, believe in yourself so much and you will literally make me write a story about you on my blog? You go out there and become a radical innovative person and together we will celebrate your achievement on this blog page.