Necessity and desperation are portrayed as the prime motivators of innovative behaviour, but in reality, stability and holistic incentives go a long way to freeing up creative energy.
Health care relies on increasingly sophisticated devices for implanting into the body or monitoring it. Yet most med school graduates are not versed in engineering. That needs to change.
As fictional inventors make terrible choices on the big screen, real-world tech innovators can learn from their example how not to make the same kinds of ethical mistakes.
The 2018 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science were awarded at Canberra’s Parliament House on October 17. Along with the top prize, life science, physics, innovation and teaching were recognised.
To become a successful innovator, follow Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi and today’s female social entrepreneurs – focus on ideas and social value, not money.
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego e Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego
New research shows recruiting high-skilled immigrants leads to a ‘meaningful’ increase in innovation – and even more than spending money on research and development.
Everyday routines help individuals and organisations work efficiently, but can also be one of the biggest obstacles to innovation. Here’s a five-point plan for implementing innovations.
Basic research can be easy to mock as pointless and wasteful of resources. But it’s very often the foundation for future innovation – even in ways the original scientists couldn’t have imagined.