WHAT INNOVATION MEANS TO ENGINEERING
Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 09:00PM WHAT INNOVATION MEANS TO ENGINEERING
Innovation is driven by culture, and the ability to implement. This can be achieved by harnessing the creative power of your greatest asset - your people. The goal is to turn them into opportunistic entrepreneurs who are constantly looking for new ways of doing business. And although I firmly believe that innovation is not directly linked with age, I do believe young people these days are inherently innovative.
Our education systems, lifestyle, access to technology and an unlimited amount of knowledge, personal freedom, as well as freedom of choice has resulted in our youth being encouraged to innovate and question and break traditional boundaries.
Young people are not experienced enough to know that something can't be done, so it is imperative to encourage them to come forward with new ideas; new ways of solving old problems; the use of enabling technologies to add to a sustaining technology; or indeed to invent a disruptive technology.
Paul Salteri, group managing director,
Tenix Pty Limited (from The Warren Centre Innovation Lecture 2005)
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