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Friday 7 December 2012

The Process of Invention and Innovation


Nowadays, we are living in a new era. Creative ideas to invent things and  to bring innovation around the world can be found easily. I believe that now we are going to the 'instant' culture, where everything can be done instantly. Since technology grows rapidly, I'm a little bit worried about our life, and what will happen in the future. Does invention useful to us? or does innovation can change the world significantly?
First of all, we need to understand what are the meaning of invention and innovation. Refer to Wikipedia, invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product, or a new process for creating an object or a result. Innovation is the development of new customers value through solutions that meet new needs, inarticulate needs, or old customer and market needs in new ways.
So, from now we can understand that invention is the most important product for scientific knowledge. On the other hand, innovation involves the use or development of an invention for some useful purpose.
Invention and innovation are growing together, they cannot be separated, but remember that they are still difference.
For better understanding, let me give you example about invention and innovation. Back to 5-10 years ago, people used to be a cellular phones user. Meaning to say that phones at that time were just ordinary phones. They did not provide a lot of features or applications. Moreover, back to 1973s, when the first hand phone has been invented, it was just for communication purpose. People did not even think about the features, applications or games on that phone. As technology grows rapidly, you can see nowadays, people are using smartphones. Smartphone is the innovation of ordinary phone.
Another example is Samsung company. Maybe they are not the first that invented touchscreen smartphones, but look at now a lot of people are buying their product. What makes Samsung product very interesting? In my opinion, they are maybe inspired by Apple company that has invented a very good smartphones that we called iPhone. But why Samsung can dominate smartphones market now is because they are dare to be different from Apple. They are dare to bring innovation. They invented some features and applications that you cannot find in Apple product. That is how Samsung use innovation and invention to bring different ideas.
In brief, invention and innovation cannot be separated with technology, since technology is the aggregation of all existing inventions and innovations.

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