Engineering innovation: lessons from history
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Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024
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David Payne (who came up with the <a href="https://spie.org/x41337.xml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Video: David Payne on the erbium-doped fiber amplifier</a> – a key enabler of the World Wide Web) once said: ‘research is turning cash into ideas; but innovation is turning ideas into cash.’
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By better understanding the factors affecting innovation, we can perhaps reverse the situation such as that once outlined by Bill Gates, where research into a cure for male pattern baldness attracts more funding than research into finding a cure for malaria.
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Sounds frightfully familiar. Fair and Lovely, Fair and Handsome (never pale and anemic) get far more mileage than Dengue.
How to control the 'uncontrollable' innovation in useful channels?
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Cogitate on Sir William Wakeham, senior vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, who argues that looking to our rich engineering past could help encourage business innovation today.
What do CEans feel?
David Payne (who came up with the <a href="https://spie.org/x41337.xml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Video: David Payne on the erbium-doped fiber amplifier</a> – a key enabler of the World Wide Web) once said: ‘research is turning cash into ideas; but innovation is turning ideas into cash.’
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By better understanding the factors affecting innovation, we can perhaps reverse the situation such as that once outlined by Bill Gates, where research into a cure for male pattern baldness attracts more funding than research into finding a cure for malaria.
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Sounds frightfully familiar. Fair and Lovely, Fair and Handsome (never pale and anemic) get far more mileage than Dengue.
How to control the 'uncontrollable' innovation in useful channels?
#-Link-Snipped-#
Cogitate on Sir William Wakeham, senior vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, who argues that looking to our rich engineering past could help encourage business innovation today.
What do CEans feel?
