Module 2

CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, AND INVENTION

INVENTION
Described as a truly novel product, service, or process that, though based on ideas and
products that have come before, represents a leap, a creation truly novel and different

How is innovation different from innovation?

Invention can refer to a type of musical composition, a falsehood, a discovery, or any product of
the imagination.
Innovation, for its part, can refer to something new or to a change made to an existing product,
idea, or field.

THE 12 GREATEST INNOVATORS OF ALL TIME

1. Thomas Edison
- Best known for inventing the first long lasting, commercially practical incandescent
light bulb.
2. Steve Jobs
- He played a central role in the personal computer revolutions and in developing its
key products including the McIntosh, the iPod, and the iPhone.
3. Nikola Tesla
- He helped develop the AC electrical delivery system. Tesla’s creative work regarding
the production and transmission of power was far ahead of his time.
4. Bill Gates
- Gates founded and built Microsoft into an unmatched software behemoth.
5. Benjamin Franklin
- Brilliant polymath, inventor, political theorist, scientist, stateman, and writer. He is
perhaps best known for his experiments with lightning and electricity.
6. Leonardo Da Vinci
- A philosopher, engineer, and inventor. He left behind him a collection of
extraordinarily prescient drawings depicting future technologies (helicopter, tank,
solar power).
7. Alexander Graham Bell
- A Scottish inventor and engineer, Bell was awarded the US patent for the telephone
in 1876.
8. Sandford Fleming
- He built the transcontinental railways of the 19th century. He was also the inventor
of worldwide standard time and the standard times zones used today.
9. Marie Curie
- First female winner of the Nobel Prize in 1903. Curie is known for her breakthrough
ideas in radioactivity and her discovery of two elements.
10. The Wright brothers
- Orville and Wilbur Wright invented and flew the world’s first successful airplane in
1903.
 11. Galileo Galilei
- Galileo is often called the father of modern Science. Forced to defend his views of
heliocentrism against the Roman inquisition.
12. Richard Feynman
- Freyman’s breakthrough ideas in Quantum theory helped revolutionized that field.

THE GREATEST INNOVATORS OF THE LAST 30 YEARS

Jeff Bezos
- Bezos is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time, and the man who
revolutionized ecommerce.
Larry Page
- Co-founder and current CEO of Google, Page is leading one of the most innovative
and successful companies in the world, perhaps in history.
Sergey Brin
- Brin has been involved with some of the company’s most innovative technologies
including Google Glass, and Google’s self-driving cars.

Elon Musk
- A co-founder of PayPal. Musk went on to found the electric car company Tesla, and
the space technology company SpaceX.
Reid Hoffman
- Founder of the pioneering social networking website, LinkedIn. Hoffman is a Silicon
Valley veteran who was also COO of PayPal.
Richard Branson
- The colorful and creative British founder of Virgin Group is one of the most
successful businessmen of our time.
Jeffrey Grossman
- Grossman has done pioneering work and research on materials science, including
photovoltaics and nanotechnology.
Ray Kurzweil
- Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. He is
involved in the fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech
synthesis, speech recognition, technology, and electronic keyboard instruments.
Dean Kamen
- An American inventor and entrepreneur. Kamen invented the pioneering
transportation vehicle the Segway.
Marc Benioff
- CEO and President of IDEO, the pioneering international design firm, Brown is a
global expert on the nature of innovation in business, technology, and design.
Martine Rothblatt
- Founder of United Therapeutics, a medical biotech company as well as a founder of
Sirius satellite Radio.
Larry Ellison
 - Co-founder and CEO of Oracle, a long-time pioneer and innovator in the software
industry.
Michael Dell
- Founder and CEO of Dell computers. Dell changed the personal computer industry
with his innovative business methods and pioneering use of w-commerce.
Hiroshi Mikitani
- Mikitani is co-founder and CEO of Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce company
with a focus on empowering merchants with exceptional service.
Jony Ive
- A world-renowned product designer, Ive is the person responsible for many of the
Apple’s most innovative and pioneering designs.
Robert De Pera
- He is the founder of Ubiquiti Networks, a pioneering wireless technology company
serving the world’s emerging markets.
Marissa Meyer
- The current CEO of Yahoo. Mayer was the first female engineer at Google.
Salman Khan
- Founder of Khan academy, a free, non-profit online education platform. Khan’s
mission is to provide a “world class education for anyone, anywhere.”
Shai Agassi
- He is the founder of the unsuccessful but innovative company Better Place, which
pioneered a unique battery switching technology for electric cars.
Mark Zuckerberg
- The billionaire co-founder and CEO of Facebook is responsible for the most
successful social networking website on the internet.
Dustin Moskovitz
- A former co-founder of Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Moskovitz left Facebook to
found Asana, the web-based productivity software.
Blake Ross
- The pioneering founder of the Mozilla Firefox project, the successful open-spurce
browser.
Matt Brimer
- Brimer is the co-founder of the General Assembly, a global education company that
provides entrepreneurs with opportunities and education in technology, design, and
business.
Jay Kimmelman
- Co-founder of Bridge international, a non-profit designed to bring low-cost high-
quality education to those living on less than 2 dollars a day.
Ben Rettray
- Founder and CEO of change.org, the online petition site focused on social change.
Daniel Epstein
- Co-founder of Unreasonable Institute, a “boot camp” for social entrepreneurs from
around the world.
Pete Cashmore
 - Founder and CEO of Mashable. Cashmore is responsible for the one of the most
influential blogs and one of the world’s largest websites.
Elliot is Bisnow
- He is the founder and CEO of Summit Series, an innovative conference series for
entrepreneurs based in Utah.
Jack Andraka
- He developed a new way to detect pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer during early
stages when there is a much higher likelihood of a cure.
Eesha Khare
- Created a tiny device that could charge a mobile phone in 20-30 seconds – a
revolutionary technology she calls a “super-capacitor.”