Facts on Innovation: 6 Amazing Ones You Need to Know

Charles Darwin said: It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. From Dan Pink’s Blog, we found the following facts on innovation that we would like to share with you:

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A study of the top 50 game-changing innovations over a 100-year period showed that nearly 80% of those changes were sparked by someone whose primary expertise was outside the field in which the innovation breakthrough took place.

Wow! 80% created by someone outside the field where innovation occurred! What other innovative facts and conclusions can we derive from this? Innovation, while often depending on the new invention, is more about application than invention.

Often the application of something similar has already been performed in the other field, usually in a different way. When working innovation, it helps to draw on various skills; experience sets …diverse crowds.

We need to be constantly open to new ideas, particularly in different fields of endeavor. Probably the most persistent — and damaging — the myth about innovation is that it’s about ideas. It’s not. Tremendous amounts of time and energy are wasted thinking up radically new ideas that never end up going anywhere. Middle managers never seem to tire of complaining that their ideas are…