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Entrepreneurs instigate change thereby shifting economic resources away from established endeavors into areas of greater yield and higher productivity. This is wealth creation and not wealth accumulation .
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What is Innovation?
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies or ideas. These should be acceptable to markets, governments and society. Innovation means the use or application of a new idea. Invention means discovery or creation of the idea or method itself.
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Why Innovate?
Innovation is the catalyst to Growth. Continual innovation is paramount for any firm to maintain competitive advantage . Search for better ways to satisfy the consumer base with improved quality, durability, service and price through innovation.
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Teflon
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE was accidentally invented by Roy Plunkett of Kinetic Chemicals in New Jersey in 1938. Plunkett was attempting to make a new CFC refrigerant. He found inside of the iron container coated with a waxy white material which was oddly slippery. Analysis of the material showed that it was polymerized perfluoroethylene. Kinetic Chemicals patented the new fluorinated plastic (analogous to known polyethylene) in 1941 and registered the Teflon trademark in 1945 .
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Innovation
In 1954, a French engineer Mark Gregoire created first pan coated with Teflon nonnonstick resin under the brand name of Tefal after his wife urged him to try the material he had been using on fishing tackle on her cooking pans.
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Zipper
Invented by Gideon Sundback, a Swedish American electrical engineer. He was hired by Universal Fastener Company in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1906. By 1913 he had designed modern Zipper
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Velcro
Was invented by George de Mestral, a Swiss electrical engineer. Patented in 1955 Refining and developing its practical manufacturing until its commercial production in the late 1950s.
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Creativity
The ability to bring something new (a product, a solution, a work of art, a novel, a joke, etc.) into existence that has some kind of value. Innovation is the process of doing new things.
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Idea Germination
Preparation
Incubation
Illumination
Verification
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Analytical Planning
Organizing Resources
Implementation
Commercial Application
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Left Hemisphere
Conscious Analytical Abstract thoughts Abstract concepts Logical & Rational
Right Hemisphere
Unconscious Creative Spatial relationships Intuition NonNon-verbal imagining
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Technological Innovation
Creative source
Champion
Sponsor
Organization that Backs the idea with Finances, Advice and Network
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Entrepreneur recognizes change & sees opportunities where others do not. Scientific knowledge Process Innovation Industrial changes Market changes Demographic changes Social & cultural changes
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Window is a time horizon during which opportunities exist. Then something happens to eliminate those opportunities. Entrepreneur is positioned in similar work or is having experience in the related field, when opportunities become available. As if he is standing in a corridor when window opens.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. It has knowledge base. Knowledge in entrepreneurship is means to an end. Indeed , what constitutes knowledge in practice is largely defined by the ends, that is, by the practice. Peter Drucker
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Development Program
Induce attitudinal change. It can come through socio-cultural sociochanges. Innovation & entrepreneurship be a normal ongoing , everyday activity, a practice in everybody s own work
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SocioSocio-cultural environment
Tolerance for changes in the society & culture. Social mobility. Tolerance of profit making. Tolerance of private ownership.
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