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Innovation

The future belongs to whoever sees it first.

Long ago, back in the glory days of the Ming Dynasty, a Chinese merchant returned from Venice with an invention […]

No time to think differently.

Do you want to be more innovative but you just don’t have the time? Maybe you just need to think […]

Forget what it is. See what it does.

There’s this great scene in the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 when Mission Control, realising that the fate of the […]

Want brilliant? Go for crazy.

Thomas Edison was once asked ‘How many crazy ideas do you have to go through before you hit on a […]

Want a lateral solution? Go with the flow.

A cardiologist once explained to me that there was only a finite number of things that could go wrong in […]

The ultimate design test: where invention meets convention.

Have you ever wondered why DVDs come in such large (mostly empty) cases? You might think it would have been […]

The first giant leap for mankind.

Last week Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgarten slid back the hatch of a tiny capsule and stood on a narrow jump […]

The McGyver Principle.

If necessity is the mother of invention (and I’m not suggesting for a moment that she isn’t) then to see […]

Innovation, where do I start?

Want to be more innovative in your thinking but not sure where to start? Why not start with a helicopter […]