Dean Kamen Quotes About Innovation
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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions
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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
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Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.
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Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn't obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio 'the wireless.' Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.
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Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate
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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
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I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.
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